Sinc integrals and tiny numbers
Abstract
We apply a result of David and Jon Borwein to evaluate a sequence of highly-oscillatory integrals whose integrands are the products of a rapidly growing number of sinc functions. The value of each integral is given in the form $\pi(1-t)/2$, where the numbers $t$ quickly become very tiny. Using the Euler-Maclaurin summation formula, we calculate these numbers to high precision. For example, the integrand of the tenth integral in the sequence is the product of 68100152 sinc functions. The corresponding $t$ is approximately $9.6492736004286844634795531209398105309232 \cdot 10^{-554381308}$.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- October 2015
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1510.03200
- Bibcode:
- 2015arXiv151003200B
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Classical Analysis and ODEs;
- Mathematics - Numerical Analysis;
- 33B10 (Primary) 26D15;
- 33F05 (Secondary)
- E-Print:
- 23 pages, 1 figure