S000214


Alternating sum of the reciprocals of Catalan numbers (A000108).

3, 5, 3, 4, 0, 3, 7, 0, 8, 3, 3, 7, 2, 7, 8, 0, 6, 1, 3, 3, 3, 0, 7, 2, 0, 4, 8, 1, 8, 3, 7, 0, 9, 3, 9, 5, 7, 9, 6, 2, 0, 6, 0, 7, 2, 3, 8, 0, 6, 6, 0, 9, 6, 5, 7, 1, 6, 6, 3, 7, 0, 7, 0, 0, 8, 3, 5, 7, 0, 6, 1, 6, 5, 7, 8, 6, 5, 6, 6, 5, 8, 5, 4, 6, 4, 8, 4, 6, 7, 2, 9, 4, 5, 3, 3, 4, 4, 2, 1, 4, 0, 4, 9, 6, 1

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S000214

Koshy and Gao derive the formula for the sum.

T. D. Noe, Plot of 1000 terms

T. D. Noe, Table of 1000 terms

Thomas Koshy and Zhenguang Gao, Convergence of a Catalan Series, Vol. 43, No. 2, March 2012, The College Mathematics Journal

Wikipedia, Catalan number

The number is 0.3534037083372780613330720481837093957962….

(Mma) RealDigits[14/25 - 24*Sqrt[5]*Log[GoldenRatio]/125, 10, 100][[1]]

Cf. A000108, S000213-S000216.

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T. D. Noe, Aug 26 2014

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