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A257576
Continued square root map applied to powers of 2, 1,2,4,8,16,...
4
1, 7, 8, 3, 1, 6, 5, 8, 0, 9, 2, 6, 4, 0, 9, 8, 8, 8, 2, 7, 1, 0, 3, 0, 4, 9, 9, 2, 2, 5, 5, 0, 0, 3, 2, 8, 8, 5, 8, 3, 6, 7, 9, 5, 1, 1, 4, 9, 7, 3, 7, 5, 8, 8, 6, 4, 9, 0, 0, 5, 9, 0, 6, 0, 1, 8, 8, 1, 4, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 5, 5, 6, 4, 2, 3, 4, 1, 3, 4, 3, 9, 1
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
The continued square root map applied to a sequence b(1), b(2), b(3), ... produces the decimal number sqrt(b(1)+sqrt(b(2)+sqrt(b(3)+sqrt(b(4)+...)))).
LINKS
Herman P. Robinson, The CSR Function, Popular Computing (Calabasas, CA), Vol. 4 (No. 35, Feb 1976), pages PC35-3 to PC35-4. Annotated and scanned copy.
EXAMPLE
1.7831658092640988827103049...
CROSSREFS
Cf. A000079 (powers of 2).
Sequence in context: A266566 A309523 A153622 * A378129 A064207 A020843
KEYWORD
nonn,cons
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, May 02 2015
EXTENSIONS
a(27)-a(87) from Hiroaki Yamanouchi, May 03 2015
STATUS
approved