A105817 - OEIS

A105817

Decimal expansion of the Fibonacci nested radical.

1, 6, 6, 1, 9, 8, 2, 4, 6, 2, 3, 2, 7, 8, 1, 1, 5, 5, 7, 9, 6, 7, 6, 0, 6, 0, 8, 1, 8, 1, 5, 1, 3, 1, 2, 9, 5, 0, 5, 6, 1, 6, 7, 5, 6, 2, 4, 6, 5, 0, 3, 5, 0, 0, 8, 2, 9, 9, 0, 6, 8, 0, 6, 7, 4, 3, 0, 6, 2, 9, 7, 2, 3, 5, 9, 8, 9, 5, 7, 3, 8, 1, 0, 8, 1, 7, 1, 6, 7, 0, 4, 1, 1, 0, 8, 4, 9, 2, 6, 6, 6, 9, 2, 2, 5

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OFFSET

1,2

COMMENTS

The continued fraction expression of this is A105818. "It was discovered by T. Vijayaraghavan that the infinite radical, sqrt( a_1 + sqrt( a_2 + sqrt ( a_3 + sqrt( a_4 + ... where a_n => 0, will converge to a limit if and only if the limit of (ln a_n)/2^n exists." [Clawson, 229; Sloane]. We know the asymptotic limit of Fibonacci numbers is Phi^n (Binet expansion) and that Phi^n < 2^n and hence that the Fibonacci Nested Radical converges.

Clawson misstates Vijayaraghavan's theorem. Vijayaraghavan proved that for a_n > 0, the infinite radical sqrt(a_1 + sqrt(a_2 + sqrt(a_3 + ...))) converges if and only if limsup (log a_n)/2^n < infinity. (For example, suppose a_n = 1 if n is odd, and a_n = e^2^n if n is even. Then (log a_n)/2^n = 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, ... for n >= 1, so the limit does not exist. However, limsup (log a_n)/2^n = 1 and the infinite radical converges.) - Jonathan Sondow, Mar 25 2014

REFERENCES

Calvin C. Clawson, "Mathematical Mysteries, the beauty and magic of numbers," Perseus Books, Cambridge, Mass., 1996, pages 142 & 229.

S. R. Finch, "Analysis of a Radical Expansion." Section 1.2.1 in Mathematical Constants. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, p. 8, 2003.

LINKS

Chai Wah Wu, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000

Jonathan M. Borwein and G. de Barra, Nested Radicals, Amer. Math. Monthly 98, 735-739, 1991.

Herman P. Robinson, The CSR Function, Popular Computing (Calabasas, CA), Vol. 4 (No. 35, Feb 1976), pages PC35-3 to PC35-4. Annotated and scanned copy.

J. Sondow and P. Hadjicostas, The generalized-Euler-constant function gamma(z) and a generalization of Somos's quadratic recurrence constant, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 332 (2007), 292-314; see pp. 305-306.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Nested Radical Constant.

Wikipedia, Tirukkannapuram Vijayaraghavan

FORMULA

Sqrt(1 + sqrt(1 + sqrt(2 + sqrt(3 + sqrt(5 + ... + sqrt(Fibonacci(n)=A000045)))).

EXAMPLE

1.66198246232781155796760608181513129505616756246503500829906806743...

MATHEMATICA

RealDigits[ Fold[ Sqrt[ #1 + #2] &, 0, Reverse[ Fibonacci[ Range[50]]]], 10, 111][[1]] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Apr 21 2005 *)

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