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A157332 Denominators of Egyptian fraction for Pi/16 based on Machin's formula 4

%I #10 Sep 08 2022 08:45:41

%S 5,-956,-375,163823028,15625,-15596225303980,-546875,

%T 1247220779824098212,17578125,-91597497639855832244124,-537109375,

%U 6394838587727583881086964116,15869140625,-431694043145875922302762745864588,-457763671875

%N Denominators of Egyptian fraction for Pi/16 based on Machin's formula

%C Machin's formula: Pi/4 = 4*atan(1/5) - atan(1/239).

%C Sum_{n>=0} 1/a(n) = Pi/16 = atan(1/5) - (1/4)*atan(1/239).

%H G. C. Greubel, <a href="/A157332/b157332.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..415</a>

%H X. Gourdon and P. Sebah, <a href="http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/Pi/piSeries.html">Collection of series for Pi</a>

%F a(2n) = (2*n+1)*5^(2*n+1)*(-1)^n,

%F a(2n+1) = -4*(2*n+1)*239^(2*n+1)*(-1)^n.

%F G.f.: 5*(1-25*x^2)/(1+25*x^2)^2 - 956*x*(1-57121*x^2)/(1+57121*x^2)^2

%p seq(coeff(series(5*(1-(5*x)^2)/(1+(5*x)^2)^2 - 4*239*x*(1-(239*x)^2)/(1+(239*x)^2)^2, x, n+1), x, n), n = 0..15); # _G. C. Greubel_, Aug 26 2019

%t CoefficientList[Series[5*(1-(5*x)^2)/(1+(5*x)^2)^2 - 4*239*x*(1-(239*x)^2)/(1+(239*x)^2)^2, {x,0,15}], x] (* _G. C. Greubel_, Aug 26 2019 *)

%o (PARI) my(x='x+O('x^15)); Vec(5*(1-(5*x)^2)/(1+(5*x)^2)^2 - 4*239*x*(1-(239*x)^2)/(1+(239*x)^2)^2) \\ _G. C. Greubel_, Aug 26 2019

%o (Magma) R<x>:=PowerSeriesRing(Integers(), 15); Coefficients(R!( 5*(1-(5*x)^2)/(1+(5*x)^2)^2 - 4*239*x*(1-(239*x)^2)/(1+(239*x)^2)^2 )); // _G. C. Greubel_, Aug 26 2019

%o (Sage)

%o def A077952_list(prec):

%o P.<x> = PowerSeriesRing(ZZ, prec)

%o return P( 5*(1-(5*x)^2)/(1+(5*x)^2)^2 - 4*239*x*(1-(239*x)^2)/(1+(239*x)^2)^2 ).list()

%o A077952_list(15) # _G. C. Greubel_, Aug 26 2019

%o (GAP)

%o a:= function(n)

%o if n mod 2=0 then return (-1)^(n/2)*(n+1)*5^(n+1);

%o else return -4*(-1)^((n-1)/2)*n*(239)^n;

%o fi;

%o end;

%o List([0..15], n-> a(n) ); # _G. C. Greubel_, Aug 26 2019

%Y Cf. A019683, A072172, A072173.

%K frac,sign,easy

%O 0,1

%A _Jaume Oliver Lafont_, Feb 27 2009

%E More terms from _Colin Barker_, Aug 07 2013

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