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A004080 Least k such that H(k) >= n, where H(k) is the harmonic number sum_{i=1..k} 1/i. +0
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0, 1, 4, 11, 31, 83, 227, 616, 1674, 4550, 12367, 33617, 91380, 248397, 675214, 1835421, 4989191, 13562027, 36865412, 100210581, 272400600, 740461601, 2012783315, 5471312310, 14872568831, 40427833596, 109894245429, 298723530401, 812014744422 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,3

REFERENCES

J. V. Baxley, Euler's constant, Taylor's formula, and slowly converging series, Math. Mag., 65 (1992), 302-313.

R. P. Boas, Jr., and J. W. Wrench, Jr., Partial sums of the harmonic series, Amer. Math. Monthly, 78 (1971), 864-870.

W. Sierpi\'{n}ski, Sur les decompositions de nombres rationnels, Oeuvres Choisies, Acad\'{e}mie Polonaise des Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, 1974, p. 181.

N. J. A. Sloane, Illustration for sequence M4299 (=A007340) in The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (with S. Plouffe), Academic Press, 1995.

LINKS

J. Derbyshire, Rainfall Records

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Harmonic Number

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

FORMULA

The quotient of two successive terms of this sequence has exp(1) for limit. - Sebastien Dumortier (sdumortier(AT)ac-limoges.fr), Jun 29 2005

EXAMPLE

a(2)=4 because 1/1+1/2+1/3+1/4>2

PROGRAM

(PARI) gp > t=0; n=0; for(i=1, 10^20, t+=1./i; if(t>=n, print(i, " ", t); n++)) - Thomas Gettys (tpgettys(AT)comcast.net), Jan 21 2007

CROSSREFS

Apart from first two terms, same as A002387.

Sequence in context: A078141 A090327 A104743 this_sequence A027115 A077995 A076730

Adjacent sequences: A004077 A004078 A004079 this_sequence A004081 A004082 A004083

KEYWORD

nonn,nice

AUTHOR

njas, Clark Kimberling (ck6(AT)evansville.edu)

EXTENSIONS

Terms for n >= 13 computed by Eric Weisstein (eric(AT)weisstein.com). Corrected by Jim Buddenhagen (jbuddenh(AT)gmail.com) and Eric W. Weisstein (eric(AT)weisstein.com), Feb 18 2001.

Edited by Dean Hickerson (dean(AT)math.ucdavis.edu), Apr 19 2003

More terms from Sebastien Dumortier (sdumortier(AT)ac-limoges.fr), Jun 29 2005

a(27) from Thomas Gettys (tpgettys(AT)comcast.net), Dec 05 2006

a(28) from Thomas Gettys (tpgettys(AT)comcast.net), Jan 21 2007

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