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A053519 Denominators of successive convergents to continued fraction 1+2/(3+3/(4+4/(5+5/(6+6/(7+7/(8+8/(9+9/10+...))))))). 4
1, 3, 15, 29, 597, 4701, 4643, 413691, 4512993, 17926611, 695000919, 9680369943, 4380611853, 2303928046437, 39031251610227, 25940523189513, 1206420504316107, 20365306128628437, 1849040492948486661 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,2

COMMENTS

Also numerators of successive convergents to continued fraction 1/(2+2/(3+3/(4+4/(5+5/(6+6/(7+7/(8+8/9+...))))))).

A053518/A053519 -> (2*e-5)/(3-e) = 1.5496467783... as n-> infinity.

REFERENCES

L. Lorentzen and H. Waadeland, Continued Fractions with Applications, North-Holland 1992, p. 562.

E. Maor, e: The Story of a Number, Princeton Univ. Press 1994, pp. 151 and 157.

M. A. Stern, Theorie der Kettenbr"uche und ihre Anwendung, Crelle, 1832, pp. 1-22.

LINKS

Leonhardo Eulero, Introductio in analysin infinitorum. Tomus primus, Lausanne, 1748.

L. Euler, Introduction a l'analyse infinitesimal Tome premier, Tome second, trad. du latin en francais par J. B. Labey, Paris, 1796-1797.

EXAMPLE

Convergents (to the first continued fraction) are 1, 5/3, 23/15, 45/29, 925/597, 7285/4701, ...

MAPLE

for j from 1 to 50 do printf(`%d, `, denom(cfrac([1, seq([i, i+1], i=2..j)]))); od:

CROSSREFS

Cf. A053518, A053520, A053556, A053557.

Sequence in context: A147344 A201434 A202506 * A039666 A020493 A087183

Adjacent sequences:  A053516 A053517 A053518 * A053520 A053521 A053522

KEYWORD

nonn,frac,nice,easy

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Jan 15 2000

EXTENSIONS

Thanks to R. K. Guy, S. R. Finch, R. W. Gosper for comments.

More terms from James A. Sellers (sellersj(AT)math.psu.edu), Feb 02 2000

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