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Friday, February 29, 2008

Damned Numbers

Carl and kneemo, amongst others, like to think about that damned number, otherwise known as the phase angle determining the charged lepton mass matrix, which is

φ=0.22222204717

to within experimental precision: notably close to 29. The 3×3 MUB problem says nothing about this phase. Since phases usually involve factors of π, one wonders if there are any well known numbers that, when multiplied by π, also give numbers very close to 29. For example, consider the first zero of the Riemann zeta function, namely γ1=14.134725142. Observe that

πγ1=0.222260611(5)

which differs from 29 by a factor of 1.000172751(75). So we didn't really need to look far to find a number satisfying this curiosity. Are there better ones?

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