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A001901 Successive numerators of Wallis's approximation to pi/2 (reduced). 3
1, 2, 4, 16, 64, 128, 256, 2048, 16384, 32768, 65536, 262144, 1048576, 2097152, 4194304, 67108864, 1073741824, 2147483648, 4294967296, 17179869184, 68719476736, 137438953472, 274877906944, 2199023255552 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

REFERENCES

H.-D. Ebbinghaus et al., Numbers, Springer, 1990, p. 146.

LINKS

J. Sondow, A faster product for Pi and a new integral for ln(Pi/2), Amer. Math. Monthly 112 (2005), 729-734 and 113 (2006), 670.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pi

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pi Continued Fraction

Index to divisibility sequences

FORMULA

... 2.2.4.4.6.6....2n.2n/1.3.3.5.5.7.7....(2n-1).(2n+1) ...

CROSSREFS

Denominators are A001902. Subsequence of A000079.

Sequence in context: A138867 A138868 A138871 * A127588 A092585 A106186

Adjacent sequences:  A001898 A001899 A001900 * A001902 A001903 A001904

KEYWORD

nonn,frac

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

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