- Title
- On the Khintchine constant
- Creator
- Bailey, David H.; Borwein, Jonathan M.; Crandall, Richard E.
- Relation
- Mathematics of Computation Vol. 66, Issue 217, p. 417-431
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-97-00800-4
- Publisher
- American Mathematical Society
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 1997
- Description
- We present rapidly converging series for the Khintchine constant and for general "Khintchine means" of continued fractions. We show that each of these constants can be cast in terms of an efficient free-parameter series, each series involving values of the Riemann zeta function, rationals, and logarithms of rationals. We provide an alternative, polylogarithm series for the Khintchine constant and indicate means to accelerate such series. We discuss properties of some explicit continued fractions, constructing specific fractions that have limiting geometric mean equal to the Khintchine constant. We report numerical evaluations of such special numbers and of various Khintchine means. In particular, we used an optimized series and a collection of fast algorithms to evaluate the Khintchine constant to more than 7000 decimal places.
- Subject
- Khintchine constant; continued fractions; geometric mean; harmonic mean; computational number theory; zeta functions; polylogarithms
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1037959
- Identifier
- uon:13500
- Identifier
- ISSN:0025-5718
- Rights
- First published in Mathematics of Computation in Vol. 66, no. 217, 1997, published by the American Mathematical Society
- Language
- eng
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