A059183 Engel expansion of 1/log(2) = 1.4427...

1, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 47, 109, 935, 4763, 7821, 8895, 9889, 35798, 44347, 1146551, 7874944, 8043393, 27403243, 34058912, 58098040, 68760470, 80046897, 560099631, 611427977, 14235032003, 602865059026, 813485869378

Offset

1,2

Comments

Cf. A006784 for 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, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000

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.

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[1/Log[2], 7!], 100] (* Modified by G. C. Greubel, Dec 27 2016 *)

Crossrefs

Cf. A007525 (1/log(2)).

Sequence in context: A053405 A133196 A179841 * A262302 A182280 A196379

Adjacent sequences: A059180 A059181 A059182 * A059184 A059185 A059186

Keyword

nonn,easy,nice

Author

Mitch Harris, May 16 2003

Status

approved