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A048799
Decimal expansion of Sum_{n >= 2} 1/S(n)!, where S(n) is the Kempner number A002034(n).
4
1, 0, 9, 3, 1, 7, 0, 4, 5, 9, 1, 9, 5, 4, 9, 0, 8, 9, 3, 9, 6, 8, 2, 0, 1, 3, 7, 0, 1, 4, 5, 2, 0, 8, 3, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 5, 9, 2, 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 1, 1, 5, 4, 5, 1, 9, 0, 6, 9, 1, 9, 6, 7, 2, 1, 5, 1, 8, 1, 8, 7, 0, 3, 3, 4, 9, 9, 8, 3, 3, 5, 9, 6, 0, 4, 7, 6, 7, 5, 2, 0, 9, 4, 4, 4, 5, 2, 4, 0, 4
OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
Computed using suggestions from David W. Wilson posted to Sequence Fans mailing list (seqfan(AT)ext.jussieu.fr), May 30 2002
By the time n = 100 in the Mathematica coding below, each term < 10^-143.
I conjecture that the constants defined in the present sequence, A048834, A071120, A048835, A048836, A048837, A048838 are irrational. - Sukanto Bhattacharya (susant5au(AT)yahoo.com.au), Apr 28 2008
REFERENCES
I. Cojocaru, S. Cojocaru, First Constant of Smarandache, Smarandache Notions Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1-2-3, 1996, 116-118.
LINKS
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Smarandache Constants
FORMULA
Sum (1/S(n)!), where S(n) is the Kempner function A002034 and n >= 2.
Sum (A038024(n)/n!), where A038024(n) = #{k: S(k) = n} and n >= 2. - Jonathan Sondow, Aug 21 2006
EXAMPLE
1.09317...
MATHEMATICA
f[n_] := DivisorSigma[0, n! ]; s = 1; Do[s = N[s + (f[n + 1] - f[n])/(n + 1)!, 100], {n, 1, 10^4}]; RealDigits[s][[1]]
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
Charles T. Le (charlestle(AT)yahoo.com)
EXTENSIONS
Edited by Robert G. Wilson v and Don Reble, May 30 2002
STATUS
approved