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A224997
Floor(1/f(x^(1/n))) for x = 17, where f computes the fractional part.
3
8, 1, 32, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10, 11, 11, 11, 12, 12, 12, 13, 13, 13, 14, 14, 15, 15, 15, 16, 16, 16, 17, 17, 17, 18, 18, 18, 19, 19, 19, 20, 20, 21, 21, 21, 22, 22, 22, 23, 23, 23, 24, 24, 24, 25
OFFSET
2,1
LINKS
Melvyn B. Nathanson, On the fractional parts of roots of positive real numbers, Amer. Math. Monthly, 120 (2013), 409-429.
FORMULA
a(n) = floor(n/log(17)-1/2) for n>7. - Andrey Zabolotskiy, Dec 01 2017
MATHEMATICA
th = 17; t = Table[Floor[1/FractionalPart[th^(1/n)]], {n, 2, 100}]
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
T. D. Noe, Apr 26 2013
STATUS
approved