Glaisher

is Glaisher's constant with numerical value .

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Glaisher is the symbol representing Glaisher's constant , also known as the Glaisher–Kinkelin constant. Glaisher has a number of equivalent definitions throughout mathematics but is most commonly defined as the constant that satisfies , where is the Riemann zeta function Zeta, is its derivative evaluated at , and Log is the natural logarithm. Glaisher has a numerical value . Glaisher arises in mathematical computations including sums, products, and integrals but is especially prominent in sums and integrals involving Gamma and Zeta functions.
When Glaisher is used as a symbol, it is propagated as an exact quantity. Expansion and simplification of complicated expressions involving Glaisher may require use of functions such as FunctionExpand and FullSimplify.
It is not currently known if Glaisher is rational (meaning it can be expressed as a ratio of integers), algebraic (meaning it is the root of some integer polynomial), or normal (meaning the digits in its base- expansion are equally distributed) to any base.
Glaisher can be evaluated to arbitrary numerical precision using N. However, no efficient formulas for computing large numbers of its digits are currently known. RealDigits can be used to return a list of digits of Glaisher and ContinuedFraction to obtain terms of its continued fraction expansion.