''' This script calculates the constant in Gerver's solution to the moving sofa problem. See Finch, S. R. "Moving Sofa Constant." §8.12 in Mathematical Constants. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, pp. 519-523, 2003. ''' from mpmath import cos, sin, pi, quad, findroot, mp mp.prec = 113 eqs = [lambda A, B, φ, θ: (A*(cos(θ) - cos(φ)) - 2*B*sin(φ) + (θ - φ - 1)*cos(θ) - sin(θ) + cos(φ) + sin(φ)), lambda A, B, φ, θ: (A*(3*sin(θ) + sin(φ)) - 2*B*cos(φ) + 3*(θ - φ - 1)*sin(θ) + 3*cos(θ) - sin(φ) + cos(φ)), lambda A, B, φ, θ: A*cos(φ) - (sin(φ) + 0.5 - 0.5*cos(φ) + B*sin(φ)), lambda A, B, φ, θ: ((A + pi/2 - φ - θ) - (B - (θ - φ)*(1 + A)/2 - 0.25*(θ - φ)**2))] A, B, φ, θ = findroot(eqs, (0, 0, 0, 0)) def r(α): if 0 <= α < φ: return 0.5 if φ <= α < θ: return (1 + A + α - φ)/2 if θ <= α < pi/2 - θ: return A + α - φ return B - (pi/2 - α - φ)*(1 + A)/2 - (pi/2 - α - φ)**2/4 s = lambda α: 1 - r(α) def u(α): if φ <= α < θ: return B - (α - φ)*(1 + A)/2 - (α - φ)**2/4 return A + pi/2 - φ - α def du(α): if φ <= α < θ: return -(1 + A)/2 - (α - φ)/2 return -1 def y(α, f): if α > pi/2 - θ: i = [0, φ, θ, pi/2 - θ, α] elif α > θ: i = [0, φ, θ, α] elif α > φ: i = [0, φ, α] else: i = i = [0, α] return 1 - quad(lambda x: f(x)*sin(x), i) y1 = lambda α: y(α, r) y2 = lambda α: y(α, s) y3 = lambda α: y2(α) - u(α)*sin(α) S1 = quad(lambda x: y1(x)*r(x)*cos(x), [0, φ, θ, pi/2 - θ, pi/2 - φ]) S2 = quad(lambda x: y2(x)*s(x)*cos(x), [0, φ, θ]) S3 = quad(lambda x: y3(x)*(u(x)*sin(x) - du(x)*cos(x) - s(x)*cos(x)), [φ, θ, pi/4]) print(2*(S1 + S2 + S3))