A099879 - OEIS

A099879

Decimal expansion of a nested radical: sqrt(1^2 + sqrt(2^2 + sqrt(3^2 + ...

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

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OFFSET

1,2

LINKS

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..103.

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.

EXAMPLE

1.94265542276398732822141329141266723768807363...

MATHEMATICA

k = 64; r = 65; While[k > 0, r = Sqrt[k^2 + r]; k-- ]; RealDigits[r, 10, 111][[1]] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Nov 04 2004 *)

PROG

(PARI) t=0:forstep(n=100, 1, -1, t=sqrt(t+n^2)):print(t)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A072449, A099874, A099876 to A099878 for other nested radicals.

Sequence in context: A122952 A039663 A155535 * A351829 A126774 A179587

Adjacent sequences: A099876 A099877 A099878 * A099880 A099881 A099882

KEYWORD

cons,easy,nonn

AUTHOR

Mark Hudson (mrmarkhudson(AT)hotmail.com), Nov 03 2004

STATUS

approved