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Decimal expansion of log(17).
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%I #24 Jun 10 2024 07:51:05

%S 2,8,3,3,2,1,3,3,4,4,0,5,6,2,1,6,0,8,0,2,4,9,5,3,4,6,1,7,8,7,3,1,2,6,

%T 5,3,5,5,8,8,2,0,3,0,1,2,5,8,5,7,4,4,7,8,7,2,9,7,2,3,7,7,3,7,8,8,2,2,

%U 9,2,5,7,5,8,0,0,9,3,1,2,8,0,9,1,2,0,9,4,8,6,8,0,3,7,5,0,2,9,4

%N Decimal expansion of log(17).

%D Milton Abramowitz and Irene A. Stegun, eds., Handbook of Mathematical Functions, National Bureau of Standards Applied Math. Series 55, 1964 (and various reprintings), p. 2.

%H Harry J. Smith, <a href="/A016640/b016640.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..20000</a>

%H Milton Abramowitz and Irene A. Stegun, eds., <a href="http://www.convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/Reference/AMS55.ASP">Handbook of Mathematical Functions</a>, National Bureau of Standards, Applied Math. Series 55, Tenth Printing, 1972 [alternative scanned copy].

%H <a href="/index/Tra#transcendental">Index entries for transcendental numbers</a>

%F 3*this = 3*log(2) +4*log(5) - Sum_{k>=1} (87/5000)^k/k . - _R. J. Mathar_, Jun 10 2024

%e 2.833213344056216080249534617873126535588203012585744787297237737882292...

%t RealDigits[Log[17], 10, 100][[1]] (* _Alonso del Arte_, May 17 2015 *)

%o (PARI) default(realprecision, 20080); x=log(17); for (n=1, 20000, d=floor(x); x=(x-d)*10; write("b016640.txt", n, " ", d)); \\ _Harry J. Smith_, May 17 2009, corrected May 19 2009

%Y Cf. A016445 Continued fraction.

%K nonn,cons,easy

%O 1,1

%A _N. J. A. Sloane_