A059200 - OEIS

A059200

Engel expansion of -log(log(2)) = 0.36651292... .

3, 11, 11, 23, 62, 66, 466, 1450, 7617, 95677, 100963, 153329, 966054, 4744661, 23899231, 25086529, 52363821, 100389201, 201892089, 261170111, 312778184, 527002514, 1235004065, 1623652949, 2309078745, 8274570969

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OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

Cf. A006784 for definition of Engel expansion.

REFERENCES

F. Engel, Entwicklung der Zahlen nach Stammbruechen, Verhandlungen der 52. Versammlung deutscher Philologen und Schulmänner in Marburg, 1913, pp. 190-191.

LINKS

G. C. Greubel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000

F. Engel, Entwicklung der Zahlen nach Stammbruechen, Verhandlungen der 52. Versammlung deutscher Philologen und Schulmaenner in Marburg, 1913, pp. 190-191. English translation by Georg Fischer, included with his permission.

P. Erdős and Jeffrey Shallit, New bounds on the length of finite Pierce and Engel series, Sem. Theor. Nombres Bordeaux (2) 3 (1991), no. 1, 43-53.

Index entries for sequences related to Engel expansions

MATHEMATICA

EngelExp[A_, n_] := Join[Array[1 &, Floor[A]], First@Transpose@

NestList[{Ceiling[1/Expand[#[[1]] #[[2]] - 1]], Expand[#[[1]] #[[2]] - 1]/1} &, {Ceiling[1/(A - Floor[A])], (A - Floor[A])/1}, n - 1]];

EngelExp[N[-Log[Log[2]], 7!], 100] (* Modified by G. C. Greubel, Dec 28 2016 *)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A074785.

Sequence in context: A178709 A168378 A248410 * A232038 A072980 A128500

Adjacent sequences: A059197 A059198 A059199 * A059201 A059202 A059203

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice

AUTHOR

Mitch Harris

STATUS

approved