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A138370
Count of post-period decimal digits up to which the rounded n-th convergent to 4*sin(2*Pi/5) agrees with the exact value.
5
2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 12, 13, 14, 15, 15, 17, 18, 17, 19, 21, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 33, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 38, 40, 41, 42, 41, 42, 43, 45, 44, 46, 44, 47, 49, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 59, 60, 61, 63, 62, 65, 67, 67, 68, 70, 69, 70, 70, 71
OFFSET
2,1
COMMENTS
The computation of A138369 is repeated for 4*sin(2*Pi/5) = sqrt(2)*sqrt(5+sqrt(5))
= 3.80422606518061.. = 4*A019881.
The convergents are 19/5 (n=2), 175/46 (n=3), 544/143 (n=4), 719/189 (n=5), 2701/710 (n=6) etc.
EXAMPLE
a(6)=5 because 2701/710 = 3.80422535... agrees with 3.8042260651.. if both are rounded up to 5 decimal digits (3.80423 = 3.80423), but disagrees at the level of rounding to 6 decimal digits (3.804226 <> 3.804225) or more.
KEYWORD
base,less,nonn
AUTHOR
Artur Jasinski, Mar 17 2008
EXTENSIONS
Definition and values replaced as defined via continued fractions - R. J. Mathar, Oct 01 2009
STATUS
approved