A257821 - OEIS

A257821

Decimal expansion of the unique real number a>0 such that the real part of li(-a) is zero.

2, 4, 6, 6, 4, 0, 8, 2, 6, 2, 4, 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 0, 7, 5, 1, 9, 7, 1, 0, 3, 3, 5, 0, 7, 7, 5, 9, 3, 2, 9, 5, 0, 2, 9, 0, 7, 8, 0, 8, 7, 8, 2, 7, 7, 4, 0, 9, 9, 8, 2, 3, 7, 8, 6, 0, 8, 9, 8, 8, 1, 6, 1, 2, 2, 4, 0, 9, 4, 1, 5, 0, 0, 9, 1, 5, 0, 7, 1, 7, 1, 6, 2, 7, 8, 1, 5, 8, 0, 4, 6, 5, 5, 8, 4, 7, 2, 9, 3, 3, 6

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OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

As discussed in A257819, the real part of li(z) is a well behaved function for any real z, except for the singularity at z=+1. It has three roots: z=A070769 (the Soldner's constant), z=0, and z=-a. However, unlike in the other two cases, the imaginary part of li(-a) is not infinitesimal in the neighborhood of this root; it is described in A257822.

LINKS

Stanislav Sykora, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..2000

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Logarithmic Integral

Wikipedia, Logarithmic integral function

FORMULA

Satisfies real(li(-a)) = 0.

EXAMPLE

2.4664082624126780751971033507759329502907808782774099823786...

MATHEMATICA

RealDigits[a/.FindRoot[Re[LogIntegral[-a]]==0, {a, 2}, WorkingPrecision->120]][[1]] (* Vaclav Kotesovec, May 11 2015 *)

PROG

(PARI) li(z) = {my(c=z+0.0*I); \\ If z is real, convert it to complex