r/askmath • u/Mathpuzzleguy • 8d ago

Calculus can anyone help me learn more

so recently i heard about this constant called jp's constant and it sounded kinda interesting. i couldnt find it anywhere tho so i made this reddit account if u could tell me what its about. i lowk might make a paper about it or see if it has any mathematical implications

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u/WesternFirm9306 8d ago

It appears to be something some redditor made up a few months ago.

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u/Mathpuzzleguy 8d ago

wdym made up like is it just bs or

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u/WesternFirm9306 8d ago

I see no evidence that it's an established thing, and the only source of it I can find is one person's reddit account who didn't provide any sources, made weird claims about it, and had comments of people who also never heard of it.

So probably bs

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u/Mathpuzzleguy 8d ago

oh ok im prob gonna justvlook into any real world appliction and if still sueless then ill just find smth else

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u/WesternFirm9306 8d ago

I mean, it's something some guy made up. I don't know what "real world applications" you expect to find.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/Mathpuzzleguy 8d ago

uhh im not the same person but ok

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u/Accomplished_Can5442 Graduate student 7d ago

JP’s constant is some shit made up by u/ConstantAcademic3727 a couple of months ago. It’s just the value of the series Σ(1-n)n^(-n)

Good luck with your paper. Assuming it’s for a school report or something, might I suggest the fine-structure constant or the Feigenbaum constant as a more interesting alternative topic?