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A028259 Engel expansion of the golden ratio, (1+sqrt(5))/2 = 1.61803. 3
1, 2, 5, 6, 13, 16, 16, 38, 48, 58, 104, 177, 263, 332, 389, 4102, 4575, 5081, 9962, 18316, 86613, 233239, 342534, 964372, 1452850, 7037119, 7339713, 8270361, 12855437, 15900982, 19211148, 1365302354, 1565752087, 1731612283 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENTS

Cf. A006784 for definition of Engel expansion

REFERENCES

F. Engel, Entwicklung der Zahlen nach Stammbruechen, Verhandlungen der 52. Versammlung deutscher Philologen und Schulmaenner in Marburg, 1913, pp. 190-191.

P. Erdos and J. O. Shallit, New bounds on the length of finite Pierce and Engel series, Sem. Theor. Nombres Bordeaux (2) 3 (1991), no.1, 43-53.

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..300

Index entries for sequences related to Engel expansions

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Engel Expansion

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Golden Ratio

MATHEMATICA

EngelExp[ A_, n_ ] := Join[ Array[ 1&, Floor[ A ] ], First@Transpose@NestList[ {Ceiling[ 1/Expand[ #[ [ 1 ] ]#[ [ 2 ] ]-1 ] ], Expand[ #[ [ 1 ] ]#[ [ 2 ] ]-1 ]}&, {Ceiling[ 1/(A-Floor[ A ]) ], A-Floor[ A ]}, n-1 ] ]

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A070911 A113240 A098376 * A181314 A027010 A038191

Adjacent sequences:  A028256 A028257 A028258 * A028260 A028261 A028262

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice

AUTHOR

Naoki Sato (naoki(AT)math.toronto.edu)

EXTENSIONS

Corrected and extended by Vladeta Jovovic (vladeta(AT)eunet.rs), Aug 16 2001

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