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A139517
Denominators of an Egyptian fraction for e^(-1), using only prime numbers.
2
3, 29, 15787, 167776541, 4645498532379389, 1088248917469233866137385062583, 20134824338000979687246821562710150100678729578625534526933, 7555384973907056074914229240175821963966793778695751877194777853748248059480070724299647198101903944083524382569707
OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
Good approximation up to 799 decimal digits
MAPLE
P:=proc(n) local a, i; a:=evalf(exp(1)^(-1), 100); for i from 1 by 1 to n do if 1/ithprime(i)<a then a:=a-1/ithprime(i); print(a); print(ithprime(i)); fi; od; end: P(100000);
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
easy,nonn,frac
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved