A033089 Incrementally largest terms in the continued fraction for Pi.

3, 7, 15, 292, 436, 20776, 78629, 179136, 528210, 12996958, 878783625, 5408240597, 5916686112, 9448623833, 9787547328, 52662113289, 55684867310, 178811599343, 845188380288

Offset

1,1

Comments

There is no larger term in the first 653520000000 terms of the c.f. - Max Frank, Nov 01 2025

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..19.

Syed Fahad, 30 billion terms of the simple continued fraction of Pi

E. Fontich, C. Simó, and A. Vieiro, On the "hidden" harmonics associated to best approximants due to quasiperiodicity in splitting phenomena, Regular and Chaotic Dynamics (2018), Pleiades Publishing, Vol. 23, Issue 6, 638-653.

Max Frank, 653.52 billion terms of the simple continued fraction of Pi

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pi

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pi Continued Fraction

Index entries for sequences related to the number Pi

Mathematica

c = ContinuedFraction[ Pi, 10^7 ]; a = 0; i = 1; Do[ While[ c[ [ i ] ] <= a, i++ ]; a = c[ [ i ] ]; Print[ a ], {n, 1, 11} ]

Crossrefs

Apart from initial term, same as A007541.

Cf. A033090 (indices), A000796, A001203.

Sequence in context: A077775 A197594 A206851 * A370661 A175878 A180503

Adjacent sequences: A033086 A033087 A033088 * A033090 A033091 A033092

Keyword

nonn,hard

Author

Eric W. Weisstein, Bill Gosper

Extensions

Checked by Hans Havermann, Aug 07 2010

a(12) from Eric W. Weisstein, Dec 08 2010

a(13) from Eric W. Weisstein, Sep 16 2011

a(14) from Eric W. Weisstein, Sep 17 2011

a(15) from Eric W. Weisstein, Jul 18 2013

a(16) from Syed Fahad, Apr 27 2021

a(17)-a(19) from Max Frank, Nov 01 2025

Status

approved