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A225053 Second terms of continued fractions for power towers e, e^e, e^e^e, ...

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%I A225053 #19 Feb 16 2025 08:33:19
%S A225053 1,6,9,4
%N A225053 Second terms of continued fractions for power towers e, e^e, e^e^e, ...
%C A225053 It was conjectured (but remains unproved) that none of the power towers e, e^e, e^e^e, ... are integers. If so, the corresponding continued fractions contain at least 2 terms. If the conjecture fails, let the corresponding a(n) = 0.
%H A225053 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="https://mathworld.wolfram.com/e.html">e.</a>
%H A225053 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PowerTower.html">Power Tower</a>
%H A225053 Wikipedia, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetration#Open_questions">Tetration, Open questions</a>
%e A225053 a(3) = 9 because floor(1/frac(e^e^e)) = 9, since e^e^e ~ 3814279.10476.
%t A225053 $MaxExtraPrecision = Infinity; terms = 4; Map[Function[x, ContinuedFraction[x, 2][[2]]], NestList[Exp, E, terms - 1]]
%Y A225053 Cf. A003417, A064107, A159825, A225064, A004002.
%Y A225053 A056072 yields the first term of the continued fraction.
%K A225053 nonn,hard,more
%O A225053 1,2
%A A225053 _Vladimir Reshetnikov_, Apr 25 2013