A239798 - OEIS

A239798

Decimal expansion of the midsphere radius in a regular dodecahedron with unit edges.

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

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OFFSET

1,2

COMMENTS

In a regular polyhedron, the midsphere is tangent to all edges.

Apart from leading digits the same as A019863 and A019827. - R. J. Mathar, Mar 30 2014

LINKS

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

Wikipedia, Platonic solid

Index entries for algebraic numbers, degree 2

FORMULA

Equals phi^2/2, phi being the golden ratio (A001622).