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A002298 Denominator of (2/pi)*Integral_{0..inf} (sin x / x)^n dx.
(Formerly M3217 N1303)
5
1, 1, 4, 3, 192, 20, 11520, 315, 573440, 36288, 928972800, 1663200, 54499737600, 74131200, 1322526965760, 6810804000, 228532659683328000, 37638881280, 16783438527143608320, 121645100408832, 30370031620545576960000 (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

Denominator[Table[2/Pi Integrate[(Sin[x]/x)^n, {x, 0, \[Infinity]}], {n, 25}]] (* From Harvey P. Dale, Sep 04 2011 *)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002297, A002304, A002305. Except for the n=4 term, equal to A049331/2.

Sequence in context: A016504 A013335 A079324 * A195565 A197243 A175372

Adjacent sequences:  A002295 A002296 A002297 * A002299 A002300 A002301

KEYWORD

nonn,frac,easy,nice

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

Corrected and extended by Barbara Haas Margolius (margolius(AT)math.csuohio.edu) 2/12/01

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