A006526 Egyptian fraction for 1/e.

3, 29, 15786, 513429610, 339840390654894740, 383515880462620946584018566350380249, 226890280396768133952782550246970728734549546771915172071782710229538300

Offset: 0

Author

N. J. A. Sloane, Simon Plouffe

Keywords

• nonn

References

• N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

Links

• Jinyuan Wang, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..9
• H. P. Robinson, Letter to N. J. A. Sloane, Sep 1975
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Egyptian Fraction.
• Index entries for sequences related to Egyptian fractions

Crossrefs

Cf. A068985 (1/e).

Programs

Mathematica

a = {}; k = N[1/E, 1000]; Do[s = Ceiling[1/k]; AppendTo[a, s]; k = k - 1/s, {n, 1, 10}]; a (* Artur Jasinski, Sep 22 2008 *)