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A007400 Continued fraction for Sum[ 1/2^(2^n),{n,0,Infinity} ] = 0.8164215090218931... 16
0, 1, 4, 2, 4, 4, 6, 4, 2, 4, 6, 2, 4, 6, 4, 4, 2, 4, 6, 2, 4, 4, 6, 4, 2, 6, 4, 2, 4, 6, 4, 4, 2, 4, 6, 2, 4, 4, 6, 4, 2, 4, 6, 2, 4, 6, 4, 4, 2, 6, 4, 2, 4, 4, 6, 4, 2, 6, 4, 2, 4, 6, 4, 4, 2, 4, 6, 2, 4, 4, 6, 4, 2, 4, 6, 2, 4, 6, 4, 4, 2, 4, 6, 2, 4, 4, 6, 4, 2, 6, 4, 2, 4, 6, 4, 4, 2, 6, 4 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,3

REFERENCES

Shallit, Jeffrey; Simple continued fractions for some irrational numbers. J. Number Theory 11 (1979), no. 2, 209-217.

LINKS

Harry J. Smith, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..20000

H. Cohn, Symmetry and specializability in continued fractions

J. O. Shallit, Simple continued fractions for some irrational numbers. J. Number Theory 11 (1979), no. 2, 209-217.

A. J. van der Poorten, An introduction to continued fractions

G. Xiao, Contfrac

Index entries for continued fractions for constants

FORMULA

Recurrence: a(0)=0, a(1)=1, a(2)=4, a(8n)=a(8n+3)=2, a(8n+4)=a(8n+7)=a(16n+5)=a(16n+14)=4, a(16n+6)=a(16n+13)=6, a(8n+1)=a(4n+1), a(8n+2)=a(4n+2). - Ralf Stephan (ralf(AT)ark.in-berlin.de), May 17 2005

EXAMPLE

0.816421509021893143708079737... = 0 + 1/(1 + 1/(4 + 1/(2 + 1/(4 + ...))))

PROG

(PARI) a(n)=if(n<3, [0, 1, 4][n+1], if(n%8==1, a((n+1)/2), if(n%8==2, a((n+2)/2), [2, 0, 0, 2, 4, 4, 6, 4, 2, 0, 0, 2, 4, 6, 4, 4][(n%16)+1]))) /* from R. Stephan */

(PARI) a(n)=contfrac(suminf(n=0, 1/2^(2^n)))[n+1]

(PARI) { allocatemem(932245000); default(realprecision, 26000); x=suminf(n=0, 1/2^(2^n)); x=contfrac(x); for (n=1, 20001, write("b007400.txt", n-1, " ", x[n])); } [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), May 07 2009]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A007404, A089267.

Sequence in context: A135282 A179411 A103859 * A019921 A204617 A061469

Adjacent sequences:  A007397 A007398 A007399 * A007401 A007402 A007403

KEYWORD

nonn,cofr

AUTHOR

Simon Plouffe (simon.plouffe(AT)gmail.com), Jeff Shallit (shallit(AT)graceland.uwaterloo.ca)

EXTENSIONS

Deleted old PARI program Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), May 20 2009

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