A059191 Engel expansion of 1/gamma, (gamma is the Euler-Mascheroni constant A001620) = 1.73245.

1, 2, 3, 3, 6, 10, 20, 46, 226, 1836, 3719, 14308, 17262, 129530, 945152, 1535786, 2229882, 3560447, 9434930, 20957352, 102311436, 312567415, 449243761, 4362956254, 12000988888, 22909186976, 29969826721

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 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.

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[EulerGamma^2, 7!], 100] (* Modified by G. C. Greubel, Dec 27 2016 *)

Crossrefs

Cf. A098907.

Sequence in context: A079888 A165257 A368223 * A124063 A054630 A049875

Adjacent sequences: A059188 A059189 A059190 * A059192 A059193 A059194

Keyword

nonn,easy,nice

Author

Mitch Harris

Status

approved