Sea can cause individual (unexpected) rogue waves much higher than normal. Most waves are less than high and it is not unusual for strong storms to double or triple that height; offshore construction such as wind farms and oil platforms use metocean statistics from measurements in computing the wave forces (due to for instance the hundred-year wave) they are designed against. Rogue waves, however, have been documented at heights above . The top of a wave is known as the crest, the lowest point between waves is the trough and the distance between the crests is the wavelength. The wave is
Champernowne constant Champernowne constant In mathematics, the Champernowne constant is a transcendental real constant whose decimal expansion has important properties. It is named after economist and mathematician D. G. Champernowne, who published it as an undergraduate in 1933. For base 10, the number is defined by concatenating representations of successive integers: Champernowne constants can also be constructed in other bases, similarly, for example: The Champernowne constants can be expressed exactly as infinite series: where formula_2 ceiling(formula_3), formula_4 in base 10, formula_5 and formula_6 is the base of the constant. A slightly different expression is given by Eric W. Weisstein (MathWorld): where formula_8