Find Infinite Product: Solve 1/2n² Puzzle

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Essentially I need to find (if possible) the following infinite product

[tex]1 - \frac{1}{2*n^{2}}[/tex]

So, not quite Wallis number. I must say that I'm at a complete loss, not even sure where to begin.
 
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0.358486649396841... is approximately what the number is (thanks to Matlab).

Looks like anything to you guys?
 
That looks awfully similar to the infinite product for sin z.
 
Hurkyl said:
That looks awfully similar to the infinite product for sin z.

Which is

[tex]\sin(\pi\,z)=\pi\,z \prod_{n=1}^\infty\left(1-\frac{z^2}{n^2}\right)[/tex]

:smile:
 
I'm not familiar, what does it look like?