A059180 Engel expansion of log(2).

2, 3, 7, 9, 104, 510, 1413, 2386, 40447, 87110, 124975, 1565154, 1766158, 2440919, 2637001, 9192874, 24998746, 73973182, 88828340, 432049320, 470421590, 477600793, 3313014448, 4571423959, 28839435286, 40818751774

Offset

1,1

Comments

See A006784 for the definition of Engel expansion.

References

F. Engel, Entwicklung der Zahlen nach Stammbruechen, Verhandlungen der 52. Versammlung deutscher Philologen und Schulmaenner in Marburg, 1913, pp. 190-191.

Links

G. C. Greubel and T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000[Terms 1 to 300 computed by T. D. Noe; Terms 301 to 1000 computed by G. C. Greubel, Dec 27 2016]

F. Engel, Entwicklung der Zahlen nach Stammbruechen, Verhandlungen der 52. Versammlung deutscher Philologen und Schulmaenner in Marburg, 1913, pp. 190-191. English translation by Georg Fischer, included with his permission.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Engel Expansion

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Natural Logarithm of 2

P. Erdős and Jeffrey Shallit, New bounds on the length of finite Pierce and Engel series, Sem. Theor. Nombres Bordeaux (2) 3 (1991), no. 1, 43-53.

Index entries for sequences related to Engel expansions

Mathematica

EngelExp[A_, n_] := Join[Array[1 &, Floor[A]], First@Transpose@
NestList[{Ceiling[1/Expand[#[[1]] #[[2]] - 1]], Expand[#[[1]] #[[2]] - 1]/1} &, {Ceiling[1/(A - Floor[A])], (A - Floor[A])/1}, n - 1]];
EngelExp[N[Log[2], 7!], 100] (* Modified by G. C. Greubel, Dec 27 2016 *)

Crossrefs

Cf. A002162 (decimal expansion of the natural logarithm of 2).

Sequence in context: A107861 A109800 A152136 * A051637 A051471 A140794

Adjacent sequences: A059177 A059178 A059179 * A059181 A059182 A059183

Keyword

nonn,easy,nice

Author

Mitch Harris

Status

approved