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A046947 |sin(n)| (or |tan(n)| or |sec(n)|) decreases monotonically to 0; also |cos(n)| (or |cosec(n)| or |cot(n)|) increases. 13
1, 3, 22, 333, 355, 103993, 104348, 208341, 312689, 833719, 1146408, 4272943, 5419351, 80143857, 165707065, 245850922, 411557987, 1068966896, 2549491779, 6167950454, 14885392687, 21053343141, 1783366216531, 3587785776203 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENTS

Also numerators of convergents to Pi (A002486 gives denominators) beginning at 1.

Integer circumferences of circles with a(0)=1 and a(n+1) is the smallest integer circumference with corresponding diameter nearer an integer than is the diameter of the circle with circumference a(n). See PARI program. - Rick L. Shepherd (rshepherd2(AT)hotmail.com), Oct 06 2007

REFERENCES

K. H. Rosen et al., eds., Handbook of Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics, CRC Press, 2000; p. 293.

Suggested by a question from Alan Walker (Alan_Walker(AT)sabre.com)

LINKS

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Cosecant

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Flint Hill Series

EXAMPLE

|sin(4272943)| = 0.000000549579497810490800503139..., |tan(4272943)| = 0.000000549579497810573797346111..., |sec(4272943)| = 1.00000000000015101881221...

|cos(4272943)| = 0.999999999999999270361852178903362129844..., |cosec(4272943)| = 0.00000181957297167010734684889..., |cot(4272943)| = 0.00000181957297166983255709999...

MAPLE

Digits := 50; M := 10000; a := [ 1 ]; R := sin(1.); for n from 2 to M do t1 := evalf(sin(n)); if abs(t1)<R then R := abs(t1); a := [ op(a), n ]; fi; od: a;

with(numtheory): cf := cfrac (Pi, 100): seq(nthnumer(cf, i), i=-1..22 ); - Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Feb 07 2007

MATHEMATICA

z={}; current=1; Do[ If[ Abs[ Sin[ n]] < current, AppendTo[ z, current=Abs[ Sin[ n]]]], {n, 1, 10^7}]; z (* or *)

Join[{1}, Table[ Numerator[ FromContinuedFraction[ ContinuedFraction[Pi, n]]], {n, 1, 23}]]

PROG

(PARI) /* Program calculates a(n) without using sin or continued fraction functions */ {d=1/Pi; print1("1, "); for(circum=2, 500000000, dm=circum/Pi; dmin=min(dm-floor(dm), ceil(dm)-dm); if(dmin<d, print1(circum, ", "); d=dmin))} /* or could use dmin=min(frac(dm), 1-frac(dm)) above */ - Rick L. Shepherd (rshepherd2(AT)hotmail.com), Oct 06 2007

CROSSREFS

Cf. A004112, A049946. See also A002485, which is the same sequence but begins at 0.

Sequence in context: A192036 A102223 A189897 * A002485 A193193 A099750

Adjacent sequences:  A046944 A046945 A046946 * A046948 A046949 A046950

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

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

EXTENSIONS

More terms and Mathematica program from wouter.meeussen(AT)pandora.be. Further terms from Michel ten Voorde (seqfan(AT)tenvoorde.org)

Edited and extended by Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Jan 28 2003

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