It has been reported by Salvatore Esposito that the Italian physicist Ettore Majorana found in 1928 a semi-analytical series solution to the Thomas–Fermi equation for the neutral atom, which however remained unpublished until 2001. Using this approach it is possible to compute the constant B mentioned above to practically arbitrarily high accuracy; for example, its value to 100 digits is B = 1.588071022611375312718684509423950109452746621674825616765677418166551961154309262332033970138428665 .