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Glaisher-Kinkelin Constant Continued Fraction


Glaisher-Kinkelin constant continued fraction binary plot

The continued fraction of A is [1; 3, 1, 1, 5, 1, 1, 1, 3, 12, 4, 1, 271, 1, ...] (OEIS A087501). A plot of the first 256 terms of the continued fraction represented as a sequence of binary bits is shown above.

Glaisher-KinkelinConstantContinuedFractionContainsN

First occurrences of the terms 1, 2, 3, ... in the continued fraction [0;a_1,a_2,...,a_n] occur at a_n=0, 15, 1, 10, 4, 19, 16, 77, 21, 62, 229, 9, 52, ... (OEIS A225762). The smallest unknown value is 204, which has n>97059 (E. Weisstein, Jul. 25, 2013).

The consecutively largest terms are 1, 3, 5, 12, 271, 12574, 13740, 78907, 133430, 574536, ... (OEIS A099791), occurring at positions 0, 1, 4, 9, 12, 266, 3170, 3212, 12961, 82527, ... (OEIS A225752).

GlaisherKhinchinLevy

Let the continued fraction of A be denoted [a_0;a_1,a_2,...] and let the denominators of the convergents be denoted q_1, q_2, ..., q_n. Then plots above show successive values of a_1^(1/1), (a_1a_2)^(1/2), (a_1a_2...a_n)^(1/n), which appear to converge to Khinchin's constant (left figure) and q_n^(1/n), which appear to converge to the Lévy constant (right figure), although neither of these limits has been rigorously established.


See also

Glaisher-Kinkelin Constant, Glaisher-Kinkelin Constant Digits

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References

Sloane, N. J. A. Sequences A087501, A099791, A225752, and A225762 in "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences."

Cite this as:

Weisstein, Eric W. "Glaisher-Kinkelin Constant Continued Fraction." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Glaisher-KinkelinConstantContinuedFraction.html

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