OFFSET
1,1
LINKS
Joerg Arndt, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..11
Cino Hilliard, Continued fractions rational approximation of numeric constants.
EXAMPLE
The first 8 rational approximations to e are 2/1, 3/1, 8/3, 11/4, 19/7, 87/32, 106/39, 193/71. The numerators 2, 3, 11, 19, 193 are primes.
PROG
(PARI)
\\ Continued fraction rational approximation of numeric constants f. m=steps.
cfracnumprime(m, f) = { default(realprecision, 3000); cf = vector(m+10); x=f; for(n=0, m, i=floor(x); x=1/(x-i); cf[n+1] = i; ); for(m1=0, m, r=cf[m1+1]; forstep(n=m1, 1, -1, r = 1/r; r+=cf[n]; ); numer=numerator(r); denom=denominator(r); if(ispseudoprime(numer), print1(numer, ", ")); ) }
(PARI)
default(realprecision, 10^5);
cf=contfrac(exp(1));
n=0;
{ for(k=1, #cf, \\ generate b-file
pq = contfracpnqn( vector(k, j, cf[j]) );
p = pq[1, 1]; q = pq[2, 1];
if ( ispseudoprime(p), n+=1; print(n, " ", p) ); \\ A086791
\\ if ( ispseudoprime(q), n+=1; print(n, " ", q) ); \\ A094008
); }
/* Joerg Arndt, Apr 21 2013 */
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
easy,nonn
AUTHOR
Cino Hilliard, Aug 04 2003; corrected Jul 24 2004
STATUS
approved