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A071862
Number of elements in the continued fraction for Sum_{d|n} 1/d.
8
1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 5, 2, 2, 3, 6, 3, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 5, 5, 5, 2, 6, 5, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 5, 5, 2, 5, 3, 4, 4, 5, 2, 3, 4, 2, 4, 5, 2, 3, 2, 6, 6, 3, 6, 3, 2, 5, 5, 3, 2, 5, 2, 6, 7, 4, 3, 3, 2, 3, 3, 5, 2, 3, 6, 6, 6, 2, 2, 4, 3, 5, 6, 5, 4, 5, 2, 6, 6, 5, 2, 3, 2, 2, 5
OFFSET
1,2
LINKS
FORMULA
It seems that Sum_{k=1..n} a(k) ~ C*n*log(n) with C = 0.6....
EXAMPLE
Sum_{d|48} 1/d = 31/12, whose continued fraction is [2, 1, 1, 2, 2] with 5 elements, hence a(48)=5.
MATHEMATICA
a[n_] := Length@ContinuedFraction[DivisorSigma[1, n]/n]; Array[a, 100] (* Amiram Eldar, Aug 30 2019 *)
PROG
(PARI) for(n=1, 150, print1(length(contfrac(sumdiv(n, d, 1/d))), ", "))
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Benoit Cloitre, Jun 09 2002
STATUS
approved