OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
LINKS
Peter Bala, A modified Engel expansion
S. Crowley, Integral transforms of the harmonic sawtooth map, the Riemann zeta function, fractal strings, and a finite reflection formula, arXiv:1210.5652 [math.NT], 2012-2020.
Wikipedia, Engel Expansion
FORMULA
Let h(x) = x*(floor(1/x) + (floor(1/x))^2) - floor(1/x) where x = exp(1) - 2, then a(1) = a(2) = 1, a(3) = ceiling(1/x) and, for n >= 1, a(n+3) = floor(1/h^(n-1)(x))*(1 + floor(1/h^(n)(x))).
Put P(n) = Product_{k = 1..n} a(k). Then we have the Egyptian fraction series expansion exp(1) = Sum_{n>=1} 1/P(n) = 1/1 + 1/1 + 1/2 + 1/(2*3) + 1/(2*3*4) + 1/(2*3*4*5) + 1/(2*3*4*5*8) + .... For n >= 3, the error made in truncating this series to n terms is less than the n-th term.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Peter Bala, Dec 13 2012
STATUS
approved