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Engel expansion of 1/gamma, (gamma is the Euler-Mascheroni constant A001620) = 1.73245.
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%I #24 Apr 13 2018 11:22:29

%S 1,2,3,3,6,10,20,46,226,1836,3719,14308,17262,129530,945152,1535786,

%T 2229882,3560447,9434930,20957352,102311436,312567415,449243761,

%U 4362956254,12000988888,22909186976,29969826721

%N Engel expansion of 1/gamma, (gamma is the Euler-Mascheroni constant A001620) = 1.73245.

%C Cf. A006784 for definition of Engel expansion.

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

%H G. C. Greubel and T. D. Noe, <a href="/A059191/b059191.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000</a>[Terms 1 to 300 computed by T. D. Noe; Terms 301 to 1000 computed by G. C. Greubel, Dec 27 2016]

%H F. Engel, <a href="/A006784/a006784.pdf">Entwicklung der Zahlen nach Stammbruechen</a>, Verhandlungen der 52. Versammlung deutscher Philologen und Schulmaenner in Marburg, 1913, pp. 190-191. English translation by Georg Fischer, included with his permission.

%H P. Erdős and Jeffrey Shallit, <a href="http://www.numdam.org/item?id=JTNB_1991__3_1_43_0">New bounds on the length of finite Pierce and Engel series</a>, Sem. Theor. Nombres Bordeaux (2) 3 (1991), no. 1, 43-53.

%H <a href="/index/El#Engel">Index entries for sequences related to Engel expansions</a>

%t EngelExp[A_, n_] := Join[Array[1 &, Floor[A]], First@Transpose@

%t NestList[{Ceiling[1/Expand[#[[1]] #[[2]] - 1]], Expand[#[[1]] #[[2]] - 1]/1} &, {Ceiling[1/(A - Floor[A])], (A - Floor[A])/1}, n - 1]];

%t EngelExp[N[EulerGamma^2, 7!], 100] (* Modified by _G. C. Greubel_, Dec 27 2016 *)

%Y Cf. A098907.

%K nonn,easy,nice

%O 1,2

%A _Mitch Harris_