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- From: frank@Cookie.secapl.com (Frank Adams)
- Subject: Reciprocals of Fibonaccis
- Message-ID: <1992Oct08.195919.81736@Cookie.secapl.com>
- Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 19:59:19 GMT
- Organization: Security APL, Inc.
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- This is a problem I've worked on off and on for several years, without
- getting much of anywhere:
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- What is the sum of the reciprocals of the positive Fibonacci numbers? (That
- is, Sum(n>0, 1/F_n).)
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- Numerically, it is about 3.359885666243177. The continued fraction starts:
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- 3,2,1,3,1,1,13,2,3,3,2,1,1,6,3,2,3,1
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- I'm not sure about the last two numbers here; the final 3 could be 4. The
- small numbers suggest the result may be algebraic.
-
- Closely related is the sum of the reciprocals of the Lucas numbers
- L_n = F_n-1 + F_n+1. Sum(n>=0, 1/L_n) is about 2.462858173209645; the
- continued fraction starts approximately,
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- 2,2,6,4,3,31,2,1,1,1,1,2,3,2,1,3,10
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- Does anybody know anything about these numbers?
-