A059188 Engel expansion of Gamma(1/3) = 2.6789385....

1, 1, 2, 3, 14, 33, 57, 236, 6280, 7170, 172302, 24568434, 32871132, 43231756, 60680523, 83128444, 720494727, 803406064, 1804216488, 6655647717, 9106036988, 14962799365, 37839117297, 121819278396, 262108609568

Offset: 1

Author

Mitch Harris

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

• 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

Crossrefs

Cf. A006784, A073005.

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 ] ]