# Greetings from The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences! http://oeis.org/ Search: id:a118822 Showing 1-1 of 1 %I A118822 #22 Dec 14 2023 05:25:10 %S A118822 2,-1,0,-1,-2,1,0,1,2,-1,0,-1,-2,1,0,1,2,-1,0,-1,-2,1,0,1,2,-1,0,-1, %T A118822 -2,1,0,1,2,-1,0,-1,-2,1,0,1,2,-1,0,-1,-2,1,0,1,2,-1,0,-1,-2,1,0,1,2, %U A118822 -1,0,-1,-2,1,0,1,2,-1,0,-1,-2,1,0,1,2,-1,0,-1,-2,1,0,1,2,-1,0,-1,-2,1,0,1,2,-1,0,-1,-2,1,0,1,2,-1,0,-1,-2,1,0,1,2,-1,0,-1 %N A118822 Numerators of the convergents of the 2-adic continued fraction of zero given by A118821. %H A118822 Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients, signature (0,0,0,-1). %F A118822 Period 8 sequence: [2,-1,0,-1,-2,1,0,1]. %F A118822 G.f.: -x*(x-1)*(x^2+x+2) / ( 1+x^4 ). %F A118822 a(n) = sqrt((n+1)^2 mod 8)(-1)^floor((n+2)/4). - _Wesley Ivan Hurt_, Jan 01 2014 %e A118822 For n>=1, convergents A118822(k)/A118823(k) are: %e A118822 at k = 4*n: -1/A080277(n); %e A118822 at k = 4*n+1: -2/(2*A080277(n)-1); %e A118822 at k = 4*n+2: -1/(A080277(n)-1); %e A118822 at k = 4*n-1: 0/(-1)^n. %e A118822 Convergents begin: %e A118822 2/1, -1/-1, 0/-1, -1/1, -2/1, 1/0, 0/1, 1/-4, %e A118822 2/-7, -1/3, 0/-1, -1/5, -2/9, 1/-4, 0/1, 1/-12, %e A118822 2/-23, -1/11, 0/-1, -1/13, -2/25, 1/-12, 0/1, 1/-16, %e A118822 2/-31, -1/15, 0/-1, -1/17, -2/33, 1/-16, 0/1, 1/-32, ... %p A118822 A118822:=n->sqrt((n+1)^2 mod 8)*(-1)^floor((n+2)/4); seq(A118822(n), n=1..100); # _Wesley Ivan Hurt_, Jan 01 2014 %t A118822 Table[Sqrt[Mod[(n+1)^2, 8](-1)^Floor[(n+2)/4], {n, 100}] (* _Wesley Ivan Hurt_, Jan 01 2014 *) %o A118822 (PARI) {a(n)=local(p=+2,q=-1,v=vector(n,i,if(i%2==1,p,q*2^valuation(i/2,2)))); contfracpnqn(v)[1,1]} %o A118822 for(n=0,80,print1(a(n),", ")) %o A118822 (PARI) {a(n) = [2,-1,0,-1,-2,1,0,1][(n-1)%8+1];} \\ _Joerg Arndt_, Jan 02 2014 %Y A118822 Cf. A118821 (partial quotients), A118823 (denominators). %K A118822 frac,sign %O A118822 1,1 %A A118822 _Paul D. Hanna_, May 01 2006 # Content is available under The OEIS End-User License Agreement: http://oeis.org/LICENSE