Bernoulli numbers
Edwin Clark
eclark at math.usf.edu
Tue Feb 3 21:07:31 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.
>
Hmm... Maple didn't die on me (this time!) Here's what I got
taking n up to 2000:
> a:=n->numer(bernoulli(2*n)/(2*n)):
> b:=n->numer(bernoulli(2*n)/(2*n*(2*n-1))):
> for n from 1 to 2000 do
> if a(n)<>b(n) then print(n,a(n)/b(n)); fi;
> od:
574, 37
1185, 103
1240, 37
1269, 59
1376, 131
1906, 37
1910, 67
--Edwin
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