[seqfan] Re: A076884

[Neil Sloane]

The constant c is a compressed version of the whole sequence.
It is a consequence of the sequence. It has no other definition.
So you can't use it to define the sequence.
That would be circular.

See my 1973 paper with Aho (#20 on my pub list on my home page) for many
similar examples.

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Ed Jeffery <lejeffery2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Neil,
>
> I only proposed essentially changing the title to match the formula given
> by Benoit Cloitre. That constant c is his constant given in the formula
> section and is not my idea. I don't know where it comes from; maybe it is
> well defined and maybe it is arbitrary. Perhaps you should ask Benoit about
> this.
>
> LEJ
>
> >If I understand him correctly, Ed Jeffery proposed defining a sequence
> >by a(n) = floor(c*Pi^n), where c=0.28369744101432748943672190793123126...
> ?This is a No-No, because c is not well defined.
>
> >If c was known exactly, for example as Pi^2/7, of course this would be OK.
>
> >Neil
>
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