Hi Simon, I would bet that your values are related to this: http://www.mathstat.carleton.ca/~williams/papers/pdf/220.pdf Victor On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Simon Plouffe <simon.plouffe@gmail.com>wrote:
Hello,
I stumbled on these 2 approximations regarding F(x), the partition function, where p(n) = the number of partitions of n, as usual. aka A000041.
F(x) = sum(p(n)*x^n, n=0..infinity):
Instead I use F*(x) = sum(p(n)*x^(n+1), n=0..infinity):
Then here is the strange thing, for x = exp(-2*Pi/5) then the value is 1/sqrt(5), well almost ; the precision is 13 digits.
For x = exp(-4*Pi/5) the value is 1/2+3/2/sqrt(5)-sqrt(1/2*(1+3/sqrt(5))) the precision is 28 decimal digits. I find this quite surprising. I was sure it was exact, it is NOT. I verified with large values.
Also, apparently these are the only 2 examples I have found within F60 : the Farey fractions up to denominators = 60. Also when x = exp(-Pi/5) = apparently nothing algebraic of a low degree.
caution : do not mistake these values for the standard F(x) which goes 0 for the exponent too, it is not the same.
I added these 2 values in the formulas of A000041 of course.
Does anybody have an idea why these values just pop out like that and apparently no other ???!
Bonne journée. Simon Plouffe
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