Definition:Robbins Constant/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Robbins Constant
The Robbins constant arises from a question posed by David P. Robbins in $1977$ in the American Mathematical Monthly in the context of a general cuboid of arbitrary dimensions.
The published solution, submitted by Theodore S. Bolis applied the result to a general unit cube and presented the result in a format similar to that given here.
Sources
- 1978: David P. Robbins and Theodore S. Bolis: E2629: Average distance between two points in a box (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 85: pp. 277 – 278) www.jstor.org/stable/2321177