A081794 Continued cotangent for Pi/4.

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Author

Benoit Cloitre, Apr 10 2003

Keywords

• nonn

References

• D. H. Lehmer, A cotangent analogue of continued fractions, Duke Math. J., 4 (1935), 323-340.

Crossrefs

Cf. A002666, A002667, A002668.

Programs

PARI

\p900
bn=vector(100);
bn[1]=Pi/4;
b(n)=if(n<0,0,bn[n]);
for(n=2,10,bn[n]=(b(n-1)*floor(b(n-1))+1)/(b(n-1)-floor(b(n-1))));
a(n)=floor(b(n+1));

Formula

Pi/4 = cot(Sum_{n>=0} (-1)^n*acot(a(n))).

Let b(0) = Pi/4, b(n) = (b(n-1)*floor(b(n-1))+1)/(b(n-1)-floor(b(n-1))) then a(n) = floor(b(n)).