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A055980 Floor[sum(1/i)], 1<=i<=n. +0
4
1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,4

COMMENT

If we choose at random (uniformly) a permutation in the symmetric group S_n then a(n) is the expected number of cycles (rounded down) in the cycle decomposition of the permutation. - Dan Fux (dan.fux(AT)OpenGaia.com or danfux(AT)OpenGaia.com), Oct 17 2001

LINKS

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, High-Water Mark

L. D. Kudryavtsev, Harmonic series

FORMULA

a(n) ~ log(n) - Ahmed Fares (ahmedfares(AT)my-deja.com), Apr 25 2001

a(n)=Floor[A001008(n)/A002805(n)]. - Lekraj Beedassy (blekraj(AT)yahoo.com), Sep 17 2006

CROSSREFS

Cf. A004080.

Sequence in context: A109829 A054125 A082528 this_sequence A076080 A134914 A115338

Adjacent sequences: A055977 A055978 A055979 this_sequence A055981 A055982 A055983

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Henry Bottomley (se16(AT)btinternet.com), Jul 20 2000

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