Search: id:A091831 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A091831 %S A091831 1,3,8,33,35,39201,39203,60245508192801,60245508192803, %T A091831 218662352649181293830957829984632156775201, %U A091831 218662352649181293830957829984632156775203 %N A091831 Pierce expansion of 1/sqrt(2). %C A091831 If u(0)=exp(1/m) m integer>1 and u(n+1)=u(n)/frac(u(n)) then floor(u(n))=m*n %D A091831 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. %H A091831 Author?, On a problem of Alfred Renyi %H A091831 Vlado Keselj, Length of Finite Pierce Series: Theoretical Analysis and Numerical Computations . %H A091831 J. O. Shallit, Some predictable Pierce expansions, Fib. Quart., 22 (1984), 332-335. %H A091831 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pierce Expansion %F A091831 Let u(0)=sqrt(2) and u(n+1)=u(n)/frac(u(n)) where frac(x) is the fractional part of x, then a(n)=floor(u(n)) %F A091831 1/sqrt(2)= 1/a(1) - 1/a(1)/a(2) + 1/a(1)/a(2)/a(3) - 1/a(1)/a(2)/a(3)/ a(4)... %F A091831 limit n -> infty a(n)^(1/n)=e %o A091831 (PARI) r=sqrt(2);for(n=1,10,r=r/(r-floor(r));print1(floor(r),",")) %Y A091831 Cf. A006275, A006276, A006283. %Y A091831 Cf. A006784 (Pierce expansion definition), A028254 %Y A091831 Sequence in context: A094610 A064316 A009438 this_sequence A148916 A148917 A120892 %Y A091831 Adjacent sequences: A091828 A091829 A091830 this_sequence A091832 A091833 A091834 %K A091831 nonn %O A091831 0,2 %A A091831 Benoit Cloitre (benoit7848c(AT)orange.fr), Mar 09 2004 Search completed in 0.001 seconds