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A121472
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A devil's staircase constant: decimal expansion of the sums involving powers of 2 and Beatty sequences given by: c = Sum_{n>=1} 1/2^[log_2(e^n)] = Sum_{n>=1} [log(2^n)]/2^n.
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3
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8, 5, 7, 2, 8, 2, 3, 8, 3, 1, 0, 3, 4, 0, 6, 1, 7, 7, 5, 1, 1, 9, 0, 3, 3, 0, 8, 5, 0, 9, 7, 3, 3, 9, 9, 7, 5, 9, 0, 9, 8, 8, 3, 1, 2, 0, 9, 3, 1, 4, 6, 9, 2, 2, 2, 5, 7, 8, 2, 4, 2, 9, 2, 4, 6, 0, 6, 9, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 6, 8, 3, 3, 6, 3, 4, 8, 2, 8, 9, 1, 0, 8, 1, 1, 5, 2, 4, 9, 3, 5, 4, 1, 1, 2, 7, 0, 0, 6, 2
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OFFSET
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0,1
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COMMENTS
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The continued fraction (A121473) of this constant has large partial quotients: c = [0; 1, 6, 146, 8, 37783544111994270385152, ...]. See the MathWorld link for more information regarding devil's staircase constants.
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LINKS
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Table of n, a(n) for n=0..103.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Devil's Staircase
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FORMULA
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c = Sum_{n>=1} 1/2^[n/log(2)] = Sum_{n>=1} [n*log(2)]/2^n, where [z]=floor(z).
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EXAMPLE
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c=0.85728238310340617751190330850973399759098831209314692225782429246...
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PROG
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(PARI) a(n)=local(t=log(2), x=sum(m=1, 10*(n+1), 1/2^floor(m/t))); floor(10^n*x)%10
(PARI) a(n)=local(t=log(2), x=sum(m=1, 10*(n+1), floor(m*t)/2^m)); floor(10^n*x)%10
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CROSSREFS
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Cf. A121473 (continued fraction), A121474 (dual constant), A121475.
Sequence in context: A020786 A304226 A019868 * A117039 A327949 A085663
Adjacent sequences: A121469 A121470 A121471 * A121473 A121474 A121475
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KEYWORD
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cons,nonn
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AUTHOR
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Paul D. Hanna, Aug 01 2006
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STATUS
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approved
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