  We give the hyperasymptotic expansion of the plaquette with a precision that
includes the terminant associated to the leading renormalon. Subleading effects
are also considered. The perturbative series is regulated using the principal
value prescription for its Borel integral. We use this analysis to give a
determination of the gluon condensate in SU(3) pure gluodynamics that is
independent of the scale and renormalization scheme used for the coupling
constant: $\langle G^2 \rangle_{\rm PV} (n_f=0)=3.15(18)\; r_0^{-4}$.
