Search: id:A143609 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A143609 %S A143609 2,3,10,17,58,99,338,577,1970,3363,11482,19601,66922,114243,390050, %T A143609 665857,2273378,3880899,13250218,22619537,77227930 %N A143609 Numerators of the upper principal and intermediate convergents to 2^(1/ 2). %C A143609 The upper principal and intermediate convergents to 2^(1/2), beginning with %C A143609 2/1, 3/2, 10/7, 17/12, 58/41, form a strictly decreasing sequence; %C A143609 essentially, numerators=A143609 and denominators=A084068. %D A143609 Clark Kimberling, "Best lower and upper approximates to irrational numbers, " Elemente der Mathematik, 52 (1997) 122-126. %D A143609 Serge Lang, Introduction to Diophantine Approximations, Addison-Wesley, New York, 1966. %H A143609 Creighton Kenneth Dement, Comments on A143608 and A143609 %Y A143609 Sequence in context: A135061 A069156 A060744 this_sequence A066915 A070253 A147673 %Y A143609 Adjacent sequences: A143606 A143607 A143608 this_sequence A143610 A143611 A143612 %K A143609 nonn %O A143609 1,1 %A A143609 Clark Kimberling (ck6(AT)evansville.edu), Aug 27 2008 Search completed in 0.001 seconds