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A002211 Continued fraction for Khintchine's constant.
(Formerly M0118 N0047)
10
2, 1, 2, 5, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 3, 10, 2, 1, 3, 2, 24, 1, 3, 2, 3, 1, 1, 1, 90, 2, 1, 12, 1, 1, 1, 1, 5, 2, 6, 1, 6, 3, 1, 1, 2, 5, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 4, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 1, 1, 4, 1, 1, 2, 5, 2, 1, 1, 3, 29, 8, 3, 1, 4, 3, 1, 10, 50, 1, 2, 2, 7, 6, 2, 2, 16, 4, 4, 2, 2, 3, 1, 1, 7, 1, 5, 1, 2, 1, 5, 3, 1 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

REFERENCES

D. Shanks, Further evaluation of Khintchine's constant, Math. Comp., 14 (1960), 370-371.

D. Shanks and J. W. Wrench, Jr., Khintchine's constant, Amer. Math. Monthly, 66 (1959), 276-279.

N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

J. W. Wrench, Jr. and D. Shanks, Questions concerning Khintchine's constant and the efficient computation of regular continued fractions, Math. Comp., 20 (1966), 444-448.

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000

H. Havermann, Simple Continued Fraction Expansion of Khinchin's Constant

G. Xiao, Contfrac

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Khinchins Constant

Index entries for continued fractions for constants

EXAMPLE

2.685452001065306445309714835... = 2 + 1/(1 + 1/(2 + 1/(5 + 1/(1 + ...))))

MATHEMATICA

ContinuedFraction[ Khinchin, 100]

PROG

Contribution from Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), May 15 2009: (Start)

(PARI) { default(realprecision, 1201); k=2\

.685452001065306445309714835481795693820382293994462953051152345\

5572188595371520028011411749318476979951534659052880900828976777\

1641096305179253348325966838185231542133211949962603932852204481\

9409618068664166428930847788062036073705350103367263357728904990\

4270702723451702625237023545810686318501032374655803775026442524\

8528694682341899491573066189872079941372355000579357366989339508\

7902124464207528974145914769301844905060179349938522547040420337\

7985639831015709022233910000220772509651332460444439191691460859\

6823482128324622829271012690697418234847767545734898625420339266\

2351862086778136650969658314699527183744805401219536666604964826\

9890827548115254721177330319675947383719393578106059230401890711\

3496246737068412217946810740608918276695667117166837405904739368\

8095345048999704717639045134323237715103219651503824698888324870\

9353994696082647818120566349467125784366645797409778483662049777\

7486827656970871631929385128993141995186116737926546205635059513\

8571376169712687229980532767327871051376395637190231452890030581\

3691090479967275757138504356505064159082099962340277905383418098\

5121278529455415101923273972716796875156245586879771758718269365\

9554502513041968186509380313038584352986863635162; x=contfrac(k); for (n=1, 1257, write("b002211.txt", n, " ", x[n])); } (End)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002210.

Sequence in context: A032259 A109851 A011404 * A175011 A171840 A132309

Adjacent sequences:  A002208 A002209 A002210 * A002212 A002213 A002214

KEYWORD

cofr,nonn,nice,easy

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Oct 31 2001

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