OFFSET
0,2
REFERENCES
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
G. C. Greubel, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000
Jeffrey Shallit, Some predictable Pierce expansions, Fib. Quart., 22 (1984), 332-335.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pierce Expansion
FORMULA
If u(0) = exp(1/m), where m is an integer >=1, and u(n+1) = u(n)/frac(u(n)) then floor(u(n)) = m*n. Let u(0)=1/gamma and u(n+1) = u(n)/frac(u(n)) where frac(x) is the fractional part of x, then a(n) = floor(u(n)) - Benoit Cloitre, Mar 09 2004
MATHEMATICA
PierceExp[A_, n_] := Join[Array[1 &, Floor[A]], First@Transpose@ NestList[{Floor[1/Expand[1 - #[[1]] #[[2]]]], Expand[1 - #[[1]] #[[2]]]} &, {Floor[1/(A - Floor[A])], A - Floor[A]}, n - 1]]; PierceExp[N[EulerGamma, 7!], 25] (* G. C. Greubel, Nov 14 2016 *)
PROG
(PARI) r=1/Euler; for(n=1, 30, r=r/(r-floor(r)); print1(floor(r), ", "))
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved