OFFSET
0,3
REFERENCES
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
LINKS
T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..200
Oliver K. Clay, The Long Search for Collatz Counterexamples, J. Humanistic Math. (2023) Vol. 13, No. 2, 199-227. See p. 205.
R. E. Crandall, On the 3x+1 problem, Math. Comp., 32 (1978) 1281-1292.
E. G. Dunne, Pianos and Continued Fractions
R. K. Guy, Letter to N. J. A. Sloane, 1977
David Ryan, An algorithm to assign musical prime commas to every prime number and construct a universal and compact free Just Intonation musical notation, Preprint, arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.01860 [cs.SD], 2016.
Eric Weisstein's World of Music, Comma of Pythagoras
EXAMPLE
log_2 3 = 1.5849625007211561814537389439...
MATHEMATICA
Convergents[Log[2, 3], 30] // Denominator (* Jean-François Alcover, Dec 12 2016 *)
PROG
(PARI) a(n) = component(component(contfracpnqn(contfrac(log(3)/log(2), n)), 1), 2) \\ Michel Marcus, May 20 2013
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,frac,easy
AUTHOR
EXTENSIONS
More terms from James A. Sellers, Sep 16 2000
STATUS
approved