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A002485 Numerators of convergents to Pi.
(Formerly M3097 N1255)
45
0, 1, 3, 22, 333, 355, 103993, 104348, 208341, 312689, 833719, 1146408, 4272943, 5419351, 80143857, 165707065, 245850922, 411557987, 1068966896, 2549491779, 6167950454, 14885392687, 21053343141, 1783366216531, 3587785776203, 5371151992734, 8958937768937 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
From Alexander R. Povolotsky, Apr 09 2012: (Start)
K. S. Lucas found, by brute-force search, using Maple programming, several different variants of integral identities which relate each of several first Pi convergents (A002485(n)/A002486(n)) to Pi.
I conjecture the following identity below, which represents a generalization of Stephen Lucas's experimentally obtained identities:
(-1)^n*(Pi-A002485(n)/A002486(n)) = (1/abs(i)*2^j)*Integral_{x=0..1} (x^l*(1-x)^m*(k+(k+i)*x^2)/(1+x^2)) dx where {i, j, k, l, m} are some integers (see the Mathematics Stack Exchange link below).
(End)
From a(1)=1 on also: Numbers for which |tan x| decreases monotonically to zero, in the same spirit as A004112, A046947, ... - M. F. Hasler, Apr 01 2013
See also A332095 for n*|tan n| < 1. - M. F. Hasler, Sep 13 2020
REFERENCES
P. Beckmann, A History of Pi. Golem Press, Boulder, CO, 2nd ed., 1971, p. 171 (but beware errors).
CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae, 30th ed. 1996, p. 88.
P. Finsler, Über die Faktorenzerlegung natuerlicher Zahlen, Elemente der Mathematik, 2 (1947), 1-11, see p. 7.
K. H. Rosen et al., eds., Handbook of Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics, CRC Press, 2000; p. 293.
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
Daniel Mondot, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1947 (terms 0..201 from T. D. Noe, terms 202..1000 from G. C. Greubel).
E. B. Burger, Diophantine Olympics and World Champions: Polynomials and Primes Down Under, Amer. Math. Monthly, 107 (Nov. 2000), 822-829.
Marc Daumas, Des implantations differentes ..., see p. 8. [Broken link]
Henryk Fuks, Adam Adamandy Kochanski's approximations of Pi: reconstruction of the algorithm, arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.1739 [math.HO], 2011-2014. Math. Intelligencer, Vol. 34 (No. 4), 2012, pp. 40-45.
G. P. Michon, Continued Fractions
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pi
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pi Continued Fraction
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pi Approximations
EXAMPLE
The convergents are 0, 1, 3, 22/7, 333/106, 355/113, 103993/33102, 104348/33215, 208341/66317, 312689/99532, 833719/265381, 1146408/364913, 4272943/1360120, 5419351/1725033, 80143857/25510582, 165707065/52746197, 245850922/78256779, 411557987/131002976, 1068966896/340262731, 2549491779/811528438, ... = A002485/A002486
MAPLE
Digits := 60: E := Pi; convert(evalf(E), confrac, 50, 'cvgts'): cvgts;
MATHEMATICA
Join[{0, 1}, Numerator @ Convergents[Pi, 29]] (* Jean-François Alcover, Apr 08 2011 *)
PROG
(PARI) contfracpnqn(cf=contfrac(Pi), #cf)[1, ] \\ M. F. Hasler, Apr 01 2013, simplified Oct 13 2020
(PARI) e=9e9; for(n=1, 1e9, abs(tan(n))<e && !print1(n", ") && e=abs(tan(n))) \\ Illustration of |tan a(n)| -> 0 monotonically. - M. F. Hasler, Apr 01 2013
CROSSREFS
Cf. A002486 (denominators), A046947, A072398/A072399.
Cf. A096456 (numerators of convergents to Pi/2).
Sequence in context: A189897 A306578 A046947 * A360369 A193193 A099750
KEYWORD
nonn,easy,nice,frac
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
Extended and corrected by David Sloan, Sep 23 2002
STATUS
approved

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