Feigenbaum constants to 1018 decimal places

From: David Broadhurst 22-Mar-1999

To: Simon Plouffe
CC: Keith Briggs, David Bailey, Steven Finch
Subj: Feigenbaum constants to 1018 decimal places

Keith Briggs' thesis gives values of alpha and delta to 576 decimal places.
I found that his values are good to 346 and 344 places, respectively.
The 1018 places below took 3 days, using 400MB on a 433MHz DECalpha,
with a collocation of N=700 points, checked in 3.5 days at N=720.
The Feigenbaum zero nearest to the origin was located to 1018 places.
The nearest complex singularity was located to 868 places.

Let g(x) and f(x) be even functions, with g(0)=f(0)=1

g(alpha*x)/alpha = g(g(x))
delta*f(alpha*x)/alpha = g'(g(x))*f(x) + f(g(x))

and delta as large as possible. Let {b,c,d} be positive numbers with

g(b) = 0 = 1/g(c+i*d)

and {b,c^2+d^2} as small as possible. Then

alpha = -2.
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delta = 4.
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b = 0.
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c = 1.
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d = 2.
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From: David Broadhurst 23-Mar-1999

To: Simon Plouffe
CC: Keith Briggs, David Bailey, Steven Finch
Subj: a 6th number
PS: Let kappa be the order of the nearest singularity, with

1/g(c+i*d+z) = O(z^kappa)

as z tends to zero. Then

kappa = 1.
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