Search: id:A012245 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A012245 %S A012245 1,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0, %T A012245 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0, %U A012245 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 %N A012245 Characteristic function of factorial numbers; also decimal expansion of Liouville's number or Liouville's constant). %C A012245 Read as decimal fraction 1100010... in any base > 1 (arbitrary decimal point) Lioville's numbers are transcendental; read as a continued fraction it is also transcendental [G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright, Th. 192]. %C A012245 a(A000142(n)) = 1; a(A063992(n)) = 0. [From Reinhard Zumkeller (reinhard.zumkeller(AT)gmail.com), Oct 11 2008] %D A012245 G. H. Hardy and E. M. Wright, An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers. 3rd ed., Oxford Univ. Press, 1954, p. 162. %D A012245 T. W. Koerner, Fourier Analysis, Camb. Univ. Press 1988, p. 177. %D A012245 J. Liouville, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 18, 883-885 and 993-995, 1844. %D A012245 Clifford A. Pickover, A Passion for Mathematics, Wiley, 2005; see p. 58. %H A012245 Harry J. Smith, Table of n, a(n) for n=1,...,20000 %H A012245 Index entries for characteristic functions %H A012245 G. Xiao, Contfrac %H A012245 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics. %H A012245 Index entries for continued fractions for constants %F A012245 G.f.: sum(i=1, oo, x^product(j=1, i, j)) - Jon Perry (perry(AT)globalnet.co.uk), Mar 31 2004 %e A012245 a(25) = a(26) =..= a(119) = 0 because 4! = 24 and 5! = 120 %e A012245 0.110001000000000000000001000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000... [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), May 15 2009] %o A012245 (PARI) { default(realprecision, 20080); x=10*suminf(n=1, 1.0/10^n!) + 1/10^20040; for (n=1, 20000, d=floor(x); x=(x-d)*10; write("b012245.txt", n, " ", d)); } [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), May 15 2009] %Y A012245 Cf. A000142. %Y A012245 Cf. A058304 Continued fraction. [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), May 15 2009] %Y A012245 Sequence in context: A113052 A117964 A094875 this_sequence A089801 A089802 A143064 %Y A012245 Adjacent sequences: A012242 A012243 A012244 this_sequence A012246 A012247 A012248 %K A012245 nonn,nice %O A012245 1,1 %A A012245 N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com). Search completed in 0.001 seconds