Search: id:A006784 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A006784 M4475 %S A006784 1,1,1,8,8,17,19,300,1991,2492,7236,10586,34588,63403,70637,1236467, %T A006784 5417668,5515697,5633167,7458122,9637848,9805775,41840855,58408380, %U A006784 213130873,424342175,2366457522,4109464489,21846713216,27803071890 %N A006784 Engel expansion of Pi. %C A006784 Definition of Pierce expansion : for a real number x (00 such that x = 1/a(1) - 1/a(1)/a(2) + 1/a(1)/a(2)/a(3) -1/a(1)/a(2)/a(3)/ a(4) .. This expansion can be computed as follows : let u(0)=x and u(k+1)=u(k)/(u(k)-floor(u(k)) then a(n)=floor(u(n)). - Benoit Cloitre, Mar 14 2004 %D A006784 N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence). %D A006784 P. Deheuvels, L'encadrement asymptotique des elements de la serie d'Engel d'un nombre reel, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 295 (1982), 21-24. %D A006784 F. Engel, Entwicklung der Zahlen nach Stammbruechen, Verhandlungen der 52. Versammlung deutscher Philologen und Schulmaenner in Marburg, 1913, pp. 190-191. %D A006784 P. Erdos and J. O. Shallit, New bounds on the length of finite Pierce and Engel series. Sem. Theor. Nombres Bordeaux (2) 3 (1991), no. 1, 43-53. %D A006784 A. Renyi, A new approach to the theory of Engel's series, Ann. Univ. Sci. Budapest. Eotvos Sect. Math., 5 (1962), 25-32. %H A006784 S. Plouffe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..300 [There is a limit of about 1000 digits on the size of numbers in b-files] %H A006784 P. Liardet and P. Stambul, Series d'Engel et fractions continue %H A006784 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Engel Expansion %H A006784 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pi %H A006784 Index entries for sequences related to Engel expansions %F A006784 Definition of Engel expansion: For a positive real number x (here Pi), define 1 <= a(1) <= a(2) <= a(3) <= .. so that x = 1/a(1) + 1/a(1)a(2) + 1/a(1)a(2)a(3) + .. by x(1)=x, a(n) = ceil(1/x(n)), x(n+1) = x(n)a(n)-1. Expansion always exists and is unique. See references for more information. %t A006784 EngelExp[ A_, n_ ] := Join[ Array[ 1&, Floor[ A ]], First@Transpose@NestList[ {Ceiling[ 1/Expand[ #[[ 1 ]]#[[ 2 ]]-1 ]], Expand[ #[[ 1 ]]#[[ 2 ]]-1 ]}&, {Ceiling[ 1/(A-Floor[ A ]) ], A-Floor[ A ]}, n-1 ]] %t A006784 EngelExp[ N[ Pi, 500000], 27] %Y A006784 Sequence in context: A022091 A145909 A135405 this_sequence A061156 A109049 A160239 %Y A006784 Adjacent sequences: A006781 A006782 A006783 this_sequence A006785 A006786 A006787 %K A006784 nonn,nice,easy %O A006784 1,4 %A A006784 N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Simon Plouffe (simon.plouffe(AT)gmail.com) %E A006784 More terms from Olivier Gerard (olivier.gerard(AT)gmail.com), Jul 10 2001 Search completed in 0.002 seconds