[seqfan] Re: Egyptian Fractions and pi

[Alonso Del Arte]

Yeah, that happens a lot to a lot of people. You find a sequence that is
amazingly somehow not already in the OEIS, but you discover a small mistake
and that leads to the correct OEIS entry.

But, how likely do you think it is for someone else to make the same
mistake?

Al


On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Victor Miller <victorsmiller at gmail.com>wrote:

> Actually my greedy algorithm was a defective one -- Given a real alpha, and
> a lower bound n, for the next denominator, it sets
> m = max(ceil(1/alpha),n), says that m is the next denominator, and then
> recursively calls the algorithm with alpha' = alpha - 1/m, and a lower
> bound of m+1.  That's why I got a different sequence than A001466.
>
> Victor
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