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A126809 Number of terms required in the Gregory-Leibniz series, i.e. 4(1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 - ...), for the first appearance of the decimal expansion of pi to occur. 1
3, 19, 119, 1688, 10794, 136121, 1530012, 18660270 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

Calculations by Jud McCranie (JudMcCranie(AT)ugaalum.uga.edu).

EXAMPLE

E.g. a(2)=19 because if 4 is multiplied by the sum of the first 19 terms of the alternating series, then the first two decimal digits of pi (3.1) occur for the first time.

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A005667 A098444 A139176 * A020073 A138977 A163605

Adjacent sequences:  A126806 A126807 A126808 * A126810 A126811 A126812

KEYWORD

nonn,base

AUTHOR

G. L. Honaker, Jr. (honak3r(AT)gmail.com), Mar 14 2007

EXTENSIONS

a(6)-a(8) from Mike Keith (domnei(AT)aol.com), Mar 18 2007

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