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A070154 Number of terms in the simple continued fraction expansion of Sum_{k=0..n}(-1)^k/(2k+1), the Leibniz-Gregory series for Pi/4.

Original entry on oeis.org

1, 3, 4, 9, 5, 9, 14, 10, 10, 19, 16, 21, 22, 22, 24, 20, 19, 24, 28, 28, 29, 30, 39, 31, 44, 40, 44, 33, 41, 47, 44, 48, 54, 48, 60, 49, 63, 51, 65, 72, 64, 70, 78, 64, 79, 77, 74, 87, 75, 86, 82, 94, 88, 106, 106, 94, 104, 108, 87, 107, 86, 106, 98, 110, 115, 110, 105, 115
Offset: 0

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Author

Benoit Cloitre, May 06 2002

Keywords

Comments

Pi/4 = Sum_{k=>0} (-1)^k/(2k+1).

Examples

			The simple continued fraction for Sum(k=0,10,(-1)^k/(2k+1)) is [0, 1, 4, 4, 1, 3, 54, 1, 2, 1, 1, 4, 11, 1, 2, 2] which contains 16 elements, hence a(10)=16.
		

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Programs

  • Mathematica
    lcf[f_] := Length[ContinuedFraction[f]]; lcf /@ Accumulate[Table[(-1)^k/(2*k + 1), {k, 0, 100}]] (* Amiram Eldar, Apr 29 2022 *)
  • PARI
    for(n=1,100,print1( length(contfrac(sum(i=0,n,(-1)^i/(2*i+1)))),","))

Formula

Limit_{n -> infinity} a(n)/n = C = 1.6...

Extensions

Offset changed to 0 and a(0) inserted by Amiram Eldar, Apr 29 2022