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A305667
Engel expansion whose sum has the concatenation of its terms as decimal part. Case a(1) = 3.
12
3, 41, 480, 3570, 4893, 7999, 33195, 52784, 72024, 175468, 621177, 832820, 6728999, 8151748, 78184626, 273362479, 883593178, 3960000113, 28999908410, 195575352926, 750833617579, 1453443477101, 9100308145444, 49027044651379, 67795387220152, 78305516479292
OFFSET
1,1
LINKS
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Engel expansion
EXAMPLE
1/3 = 0.3333...
1/3 + 1/(3*41) = 0.341463...
1/3 + 1/(3*41) + 1/(3*41*480) = 0.341480352...
The sum is 0.3 41 480 3570 4893 7999 ...
MAPLE
P:=proc(q, h) local a, b, c, d, n, x; x:=1; a:=1/h; b:=ilog10(h)+1; c:=h; d:=h; print(d);
for n from x to q do if trunc(evalf(a+1/(c*n), 100)*10^(b+ilog10(n)+1))=d*10^(ilog10(n)+1)+n
then x:=n+1; b:=b+ilog10(n)+1; d:=d*10^(ilog10(n)+1)+n; a:=a+1/(c*n); c:=c*n;
print(n); fi; od; end: P(10^9, 3);
KEYWORD
nonn,base
AUTHOR
Paolo P. Lava, Jun 12 2018
EXTENSIONS
a(5)-a(26) from Giovanni Resta, Jun 12 2018
STATUS
approved