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A002297 Numerator of (2/pi)*Integral_{0..inf} (sin x / x)^n dx.
(Formerly M2262 N0893)
5
1, 1, 3, 2, 115, 11, 5887, 151, 259723, 15619, 381773117, 655177, 20646903199, 27085381, 467168310097, 2330931341, 75920439315929441, 12157712239, 5278968781483042969, 37307713155613, 9093099984535515162569 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,3

REFERENCES

A. H. R. Grimsey, On the accumulation of chance effects and the Gaussian frequency distribution, Phil. Mag., 36 (1945), 294-295.

R. G. Medhurst and J. H. Roberts, Evaluation of the integral I_n(b) = (2/pi)*Integral_{0..inf} (sin x / x)^n cos (bx) dx, Math. Comp., 19 (1965), 113-117.

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).

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..100

EXAMPLE

1, 1, 3/4, 2/3, 115/192, 11/20, ...

MATHEMATICA

a[n_] := Numerator[ (2/Pi)*Integrate[ (Sin[x]/x)^n, {x, 0, Infinity}] ]; Table[ a[n], {n, 1, 21}] (* From Jean-François Alcover, Dec 19 2011 *)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002298 (for denominators), A002304, A002305. Essentially the same as A049330, except for the n=4 term.

Sequence in context: A016461 A069576 A109899 * A183270 A152017 A076931

Adjacent sequences:  A002294 A002295 A002296 * A002298 A002299 A002300

KEYWORD

nonn,frac,easy,nice

AUTHOR

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

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