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A059187 Engel expansion of sqrt(Pi) = 1.77245. 0
1, 2, 2, 12, 13, 90, 121, 3457, 7372, 42530, 147081, 348753, 1185480, 17262610, 28408922, 87175278, 120293961, 344697955, 634418862, 3889219736, 8965899278, 9695659687, 18962955420, 27004920068, 67070581522 (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

Index entries for sequences related to Engel expansions

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: A025527 A092144 A181813 * A054916 A194767 A202669

Adjacent sequences:  A059184 A059185 A059186 * A059188 A059189 A059190

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice

AUTHOR

Mitch Harris (Harris.Mitchell(AT)mgh.harvard.edu)

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