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A073003 Decimal expansion of -exp(1)*Ei(-1), also called Gompertz's constant. +0
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OFFSET

0,1

COMMENT

0! - 1! + 2! - 3! + 4! - 5! + ... = (Borel) sum_{n=0}^infinity (-y)^n n! = KummerU(1,1,1/y)/y

Decimal expansion of phi(1) where phi(x)=integral(t=0,infinity, e^-t/(x+t) dt ). - Benoit Cloitre (benoit7848c(AT)orange.fr), Apr 11 2003

REFERENCES

Bruce C. Berndt, Ramanujan's notebooks Part II, Springer, p. 171

Bruce C. Berndt, Ramanujan's notebooks Part I, Springer, p. 144-145.

Walls, H. S., Analytic Theory of Continued Fractions, Van Nostrand, New York, 1948, p. 356

LINKS

Simon Plouffe, -exp(1)*Ei(-1)

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

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Exponential Integral

FORMULA

phi(1)=e*(sum(k>=1, (-1)^(k-1)/k/k!) - Gamma)=0.596347362323194... where Gamma is the Euler constant.

G = 0.596347... = 1/(1+1/(1+1/(1+2/(1+2/(1+3/(1+3/(1+4/(1+4/(1+5/(1+5/(1+6/(...- Philippe DELEHAM (kolotoko(AT)wanadoo.fr), Aug 14 2005

EXAMPLE

0.59634736232319407434...

MATHEMATICA

RealDigits[ N[ -Exp[1]*ExpIntegralEi[ -1], 110]] [[1]]

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A134879 A051158 A117605 this_sequence A087498 A121060 A021630

Adjacent sequences: A073000 A073001 A073002 this_sequence A073004 A073005 A073006

KEYWORD

cons,nonn

AUTHOR

Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Aug 03 2002

EXTENSIONS

Additional references from Gerald McGarvey (Gerald.McGarvey(AT)comcast.net), Oct 10 2005

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