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Sinc integrals and tiny numbers

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2016-03-02 v1 Numerical Analysis

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 π(1t)/2\pi(1-t)/2, where the numbers tt 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 tt is approximately 9.6492736004286844634795531209398105309232105543813089.6492736004286844634795531209398105309232 \cdot 10^{-554381308}.

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@article{arxiv.1510.03200,
  title  = {Sinc integrals and tiny numbers},
  author = {Uwe Bäsel and Robert Baillie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.03200},
  year   = {2016}
}

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23 pages, 1 figure

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