Bernoulli numbers
N. J. A. Sloane
njas at research.att.com
Tue Feb 3 19:56:24 CET 2004
Dear SeqFans, Michael Somos made an interesting discovery.
A001067 and A046968 are not the same!
In fact: (speaking baby Mathematica talk, which is
all that i know):
a[n_] := Numerator[BernoulliB[2n]/(2n)] (* A001067 *)
b[n_] := Numerator[BernoulliB[2n]/(2n(2n-1))] (* A046968 *)
For[n=1, n <= 580, n++,
If[ a[n] != b[n], Print[n, " ", a[n]/b[n]] ]
]
produces one line of output
574 37
In other words, the sequence of values of n such that
A001067(n) differs from A046968(n) starts
574, ...
and the associated ratios begin
37, ...
Could someone with more computing power than I have extend
these two sequences? PARI gives the same result. Maple dies.
Thanks
Neil
Neil J. A. Sloane
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