A053977 Engel expansion of the Euler-Mascheroni constant gamma A001620 = 0.57721566... .

2, 7, 13, 19, 85, 2601, 9602, 46268, 4812284, 147961485, 210810243, 814960948, 1003849128, 1016803038, 12917183059, 26242325020, 22215291139324, 30797877759859, 60139200644343, 121848657453426, 133555928335475

Offset: 1

Author

Jeppe Stig Nielsen, Apr 02 2000

Keywords

• nonn
• easy
• nice

Comments

Cf. A006784 for definition of Engel expansion.

References

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

Links

• T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..300
• 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.
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Engel Expansion
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Euler-Mascheroni Constant
• Index entries for sequences related to Engel expansions

Crossrefs

Cf. A006784, A028254, A028257.

Programs

Mathematica

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 ] ]

Extensions

More terms and additional comments from Mitch Harris, Jan 15 2001