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A002485 Numerators of convergents to Pi.
(Formerly M3097 N1255)
17
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, 139755218526789, 428224593349304, 5706674932067741, 6134899525417045 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,3

REFERENCES

P. Beckmann, A History of Pi. Golem Press, Boulder, CO, 2nd ed., 1971, p. 171 (but beware errors).

E. B. Burger, Diophantine Olympics ..., Amer. Math. Monthly, 107 (Nov. 2000), 822-829.

CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae, 30th ed. 1996, p. 88.

P. Finsler, Ueber 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

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=0..201

Marc Daumas, Des implantations differentes ..., see p. 8.

G. P. Michon, Continued Fractions

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pi Approximations

Index entries for sequences related to the number Pi

EXAMPLE

The convergents are 0, 1, 3, 22/7, 333/106, 355/113, 103993/33102, ... = A002485/A002486

MAPLE

Digits := 60: E := Pi; convert(evalf(E), confrac, 50, 'cvgts'): cvgts;

MATHEMATICA

Join[{0, 1}, Numerator @ Convergents[Pi, 29]] (* From Jean-François Alcover, Apr 8 2011 *)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002486, A046947, A072398/A072399.

Sequence in context: A102223 A189897 A046947 * A193193 A099750 A196734

Adjacent sequences:  A002482 A002483 A002484 * A002486 A002487 A002488

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice,frac

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

Extended and corrected by David Sloan, Sep 23, 2002.

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