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A142969
Numerators of approximants of a continued fraction for 4/Pi - 1 = (4 - Pi)/Pi.
3
1, 2, 29, 52, 887, 8066, 11069, 143128, 3485197, 2792362, 78773861, 326941444, 1166735057, 28815727078, 1038855637093, 902109848368, 1031041592023, 33635927876926, 37917122954701, 1387635433109516, 66513954553071413, 59972573887236398, 3113073102662686381
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Denominators are A007509(n), n >= 1.
This results from William Brouncker's continued fraction for 4/Pi without the leading 1.
William Brouncker's result appears in John Wallis's "Arithmetica infinitorum" from 1655.
REFERENCES
C. Brezinski, History of Continued Fractions and Padé approximants, Springer, 1991, ch. 3.
FORMULA
a(n) = numerator(C(n)) with C(n) the n-th approximant to the continued fraction (1^2)(2+(3^2)/(2+(5^2)/(2+...
C(n) = Sum_{k=1..n} (-1)^(k+1)*(Product_{j=1..k} (2*k-1))^2/(q(k)*q(k-1)), with q(n) = A024199(n+1). Proof with Euler's conversion of continued fractions to alternating series. For this conversion see, e.g., the Brezinski reference, p. 98.
EXAMPLE
Approximants a(n)/A007509(n): 1/2, 2/13, 29/76, 52/263, 887/2578, 8066/36979, ...
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A366692 A059799 A367796 * A281546 A115448 A276169
KEYWORD
nonn,easy,frac,cofr
AUTHOR
Wolfdieter Lang, Sep 15 2008
STATUS
approved