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A036296 Denominator of Sum_{i=1..n} i/2^i. 4

%I #44 Sep 05 2023 19:32:57

%S 1,2,1,8,8,32,8,128,128,512,256,2048,2048,8192,1024,32768,32768,

%T 131072,65536,524288,524288,2097152,524288,8388608,8388608,33554432,

%U 16777216,134217728,134217728,536870912,33554432,2147483648,2147483648,8589934592,4294967296

%N Denominator of Sum_{i=1..n} i/2^i.

%C Sum_{i>=0} i/2^i = 2. - _Alonso del Arte_, Aug 15 2012

%D C. C. Clawson, The Beauty and Magic of Numbers. New York: Plenum Press (1996): 95.

%H Colin Barker, <a href="/A036296/b036296.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000</a>

%H A. F. Horadam, <a href="http://www.fq.math.ca/Scanned/12-3/horadam.pdf">Oresme numbers</a>, Fib. Quart., 12 (1974), 267-271.

%F a(n) = denominator(2-(n+2)/2^n). - _Sean A. Irvine_, Oct 25 2020

%F a(n) = A000079(n)/A006519(n+2), for n>=1. - _Ridouane Oudra_, Jul 16 2023

%F Denominators of coefficients in expansion of 2*x / ((1 - x) * (2 - x)^2). - _Ilya Gutkovskiy_, Aug 04 2023

%e a(4) = 8 because 1/2 + 2/4 + 3/8 + 4/16 = 1/2 + 1/2 + 3/8 + 1/4 = 1 + 5/8 = 13/8.

%p seq(denom(2-(n+2)/2^n), n=0..50); # _Ridouane Oudra_, Jul 16 2023

%t Table[Denominator[Sum[i/2^i, {i, n}]], {n, 40}] (* _Alonso del Arte_, Aug 08 2012 *)

%o (PARI) concat(1, vector(100, n, denominator(sum(i=1, n, i/2^i)))) \\ _Colin Barker_, Nov 09 2014

%o (PARI) a(n) = denominator(2-(n+2)/2^n); \\ _Joerg Arndt_, Jul 17 2023

%o (Magma) [1] cat [Denominator(&+[i/2^i: i in [1..n]]): n in [1..40]]; // _Vincenzo Librandi_, Nov 09 2014

%Y Cf. A036295 (numerators).

%Y Cf. A000079, A006519.

%K nonn,frac,easy

%O 0,2

%A _N. J. A. Sloane_

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