OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
Denominator of the sum divides A025547(n+1), but is not always equal to it: the first exception is n = 32.
x(n) = Sum_{i=0..n} (-1)^i*4/(2*i+1) very slowly converges to Pi, with x(n) > Pi when n is even and x(n) < Pi when n is odd.
LINKS
Robert Israel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..229
Eric W. Weisstein, MathWorld: Pi formulas
EXAMPLE
a(2) = 52 because 4 - 4/3 + 4/5 = 60/15 - 20/15 + 12/15 = 52/15.
MAPLE
N:= 100; # to get terms up to a[N]
T[0]:= 4;
A215746[0]:= 4;
for i from 1 to N do
T[i]:= T[i-1] + (-1)^i*4/(2*i+1);
A215746[i]:= numer(T[i])
od:
[seq](A215746[i], i=0..N); # Robert Israel, Apr 27 2014
MATHEMATICA
Table[Numerator[Sum[(-1)^i 4/(2i + 1), {i, 0, n}]], {n, 0, 39}]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy,frac
AUTHOR
Alonso del Arte, Aug 22 2012
EXTENSIONS
Definition and comments corrected by Robert Israel, Apr 27 2014
STATUS
approved