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A076661 Index of first term of the harmonic sequence having the same denominator as the partial harmonic sequence beginning with 1/n. 0
1, 2, 4, 9, 9, 10, 10, 14, 25, 27, 27, 27, 27, 27, 27, 27, 49, 49, 49, 49, 49, 49, 49, 49, 49, 50, 50, 125, 125, 125, 125, 125, 125, 125, 143, 143, 143, 143, 143, 136, 136, 136, 136, 136, 136, 136, 136, 136, 136, 136, 98, 98, 98, 133, 133, 133, 133, 125, 125, 125, 125 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENTS

Of more interest is the index of terms after which the denominators of the harmonic sequence always match the denominators of the partial harmonic sequence. Notice that 1/4+..1/21 has denominator 15519504, but 1/1+1/2+..1/21 has denominator 5173168.

EXAMPLE

a(4) = firstHM[4] = 9 because 1/4+1/5+1/6+1/7+1/8+1/9 has the same denominator (2520) as 1/1+1/2+..+1/8+1/9 (and the sums to 4,5,6,7 and 8 do not).

MATHEMATICA

harmNumber[m_, n_] := HarmonicNumber[n] - HarmonicNumber[m - 1]; denH[n_] := Denominator[HarmonicNumber[n]]; denH[m_, n_] := Denominator[harmNumber[m, n]]; firstHM[m_] := Do[If[denH[k] == denH[m, k], Return[k], ], {k, m, 10^4}]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A002805.

Sequence in context: A163299 A198679 A111422 * A072583 A178488 A047465

Adjacent sequences:  A076658 A076659 A076660 * A076662 A076663 A076664

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Hollie L. Buchanan II (hbuchanan(AT)bethanywv.edu), Oct 24 2002

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