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- From: A.H.Osbaldestin@lut.ac.uk (Andy Osbaldestin)
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- Subject: Re: Reciprocals of Fibonaccis
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- Date: 9 Oct 92 14:37:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Oct08.195919.81736@Cookie.secapl.com>,
- frank@Cookie.secapl.com (Frank Adams) wrote:
- >
- > This is a problem I've worked on off and on for several years, without
- > getting much of anywhere:
- >
- > What is the sum of the reciprocals of the positive Fibonacci numbers? (That
- > is, Sum(n>0, 1/F_n).)
- >
- > Numerically, it is about 3.359885666243177. The continued fraction starts:
- >
- > 3,2,1,3,1,1,13,2,3,3,2,1,1,6,3,2,3,1
- >
- > 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,
- >
- > 2,2,6,4,3,31,2,1,1,1,1,2,3,2,1,3,10
- >
- > Does anybody know anything about these numbers?
-
- The best reference I know for this problem is the book "Pi and the AGM" by
- J M & P B Borwein. Section 3.7 is what you want. The series are expressible
- in terms of theta functions and Lambert series.
-
- Regards,
- Andy Osbaldestin
-