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A118323 (Greedy) Egyptian fraction expansion of Catalan constant. 30
2, 3, 13, 176, 36543, 1394774578, 12493702893882521837, 265316559833226727589598741150947701321 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

REFERENCES

Mohammad K. Azarian, Sylvester's Sequence and the Infinite Egyptian Fraction Decomposition of 1, Problem 958, College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 42, No. 4, September 2011, p. 330.  Solution published in Vol. 43, No. 4, September 2012, pp. 340-342.

LINKS

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..8.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Egyptian Fraction

EXAMPLE

Catalan constant = 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/13 + 1/176 + 1/36543 + ...

MATHEMATICA

a = {}; k = N[Catalan, 1000]; Do[s = Ceiling[1/k]; AppendTo[a, s]; k = k - 1/s, {n, 1, 10}]; a [From Artur Jasinski, Sep 22 2008]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A006752, A104338, A014538, A153069, A153070, A054543. - Stuart Clary, Dec 17, 2008

Sequence in context: A137459 A072162 A113785 * A113494 A139520 A132535

Adjacent sequences:  A118320 A118321 A118322 * A118324 A118325 A118326

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Eric W. Weisstein, Apr 23, 2006

STATUS

approved

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