New bounds on the length of finite pierce and Engel series
P. Erdös, J. O. Shallit (1991)
Journal de théorie des nombres de Bordeaux
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Every real number , has an essentially unique expansion as a Pierce series : where the form a strictly increasing sequence of positive integers. The expansion terminates if and only if is rational. Similarly, every positive real number has a unique expansion as an Engel series : where the form a (not necessarily strictly) increasing sequence of positive integers. If the expansion is infinite, we require that the sequence yi...