login
This site is supported by donations to The OEIS Foundation.
Logo

Hints
(Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences!)
A130549 Numerators of partial sums for a series for 2*Zeta(2)/3 = (Pi^2)/9. 4
1, 13, 197, 1105, 9211, 130277, 82987349, 331950131, 16929464521, 29241805241, 3538258509761, 6259995854281, 1057939300471201, 1057939300716589, 51133732870640471, 372975463296151087, 107789908892879155343 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

COMMENTS

Denominators are given in A130550.

The r(n):= 2*sum(1/(j^2*binomial(2*j,j)),j=1..n) tend, for n->infinity, to 2*Zeta(2)/3 = (Pi^2)/9, which is approximately 1.096622711.

REFERENCES

A. van der Poorten, A proof that Euler missed..., Math. Intell. 1(1979)195-203; reprinted in Pi: A Source Book, pp. 439-447, eq. 2', with a hint for the proof in footnote 4.

L. Berggren, T. Borwein and P. Borwein, Pi: A Source Book, Springer, New York, 1997, p. 687.

C. Elsner, On recurrence formulae for sums involving binomial coefficients, Fib. Q., 43 (No. 1, 2005), 31-45.

LINKS

W. Lang, Rationals and limit.

FORMULA

a(n)=numerator(r(n)), n>=1, with the rationals r(n) defined above.

Numerator of (2/3)* Sum_{i=1..n} 1/(i^2*C(2*i,i)). - Wolfdieter Lang, Oct 07 2008

EXAMPLE

Rationals r(n): [1, 13/12, 197/180, 1105/1008, 9211/8400, 130277/118800,...].

CROSSREFS

Cf. A112099, A112100, A112102, A112103, A130550.

Sequence in context: A099271 A081796 A140536 * A157690 A055478 A121503

Adjacent sequences:  A130546 A130547 A130548 * A130550 A130551 A130552

KEYWORD

nonn,frac,easy

AUTHOR

Wolfdieter Lang (wolfdieter.lang(AT)physik.uni-karlsruhe.de) Jul 13 2007

Lookup | Welcome | Wiki | Register | Music | Plot 2 | Demos | Index | Browse | More | WebCam
Contribute new seq. or comment | Format | Transforms | Puzzles | Hot | Classics
Recent Additions | More pages | Superseeker | Maintained by The OEIS Foundation Inc.

Content is available under The OEIS End-User License Agreement .

Last modified February 14 13:08 EST 2012. Contains 205623 sequences.