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A070267
Maximum element in the simple continued fraction expansion of e(n) = 1+1/2!+1/3!+...+1/n!.
2
1, 2, 2, 3, 8, 5, 4, 14, 6, 29, 10, 16, 20, 18, 42, 59, 13, 14, 59, 35, 31, 184, 24, 65, 42, 64, 401, 71, 26, 24, 36, 31, 52, 187, 28, 41, 128, 177, 3041, 249, 315, 162, 118, 36, 101, 135, 86, 70, 194, 104, 274, 62, 2515, 305, 68, 59, 49, 88, 359, 280, 100, 702, 52
OFFSET
1,2
LINKS
EXAMPLE
The simple continued fraction expansion of e(10) is [1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 4, 1, 1, 6, 1, 1, 11, 1, 1, 29, 1, 1, 2], hence a(10) = 29.
MATHEMATICA
Table[ Max[ ContinuedFraction[ Sum[1/i!, {i, 1, n}]]], {n, 1, 65}]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
easy,nonn
AUTHOR
Benoit Cloitre, May 09 2002
STATUS
approved