Hey, that's a possible use of Wolfram alpha :-)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0.28867519

Seems fairly close to sqrt(3)/6, then. Not exactly but close enough.

-- 
Vincent

SharkD wrote:
> In the process of writing one of my scenes I arrived through tedious 
> trial and error at a particular constant with a value of 0.28867519 
> (plus an unknown number of additional decimals after the last place).
> 
> No matter to how many decimal places I manually determine the value, I'd 
> rather know for sure *where* the number came from and *what* it 
> represents. Is it a mathematical constant like 'e'? Is it the result of 
> some trigonometric expression?
> 
> My question is, in your travels in the land of mathematics, have you 
> seen this number before? Is it familiar to you? Have you arrived at this 
> value yourself in past operations, and how?
> 
> I would post the entire scene (probably the only *real* solution), but 
> it is fairly complex and I haven't received a lot of responses in my 
> previous threads.
> 
> Anyway, thanks for any assistence.
> 
> Mike

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