Engel Expansion - Growth Rate of The Expansion Terms

Growth Rate of The Expansion Terms

The coefficients ai of the Engel expansion typically exhibit exponential growth; more precisely, for almost all numbers in the interval (0,1], the limit exists and is equal to e. However, the subset of the interval for which this is not the case is still large enough that its Hausdorff dimension is one.

The same typical growth rate applies to the terms in expansion generated by the greedy algorithm for Egyptian fractions. However, the set of real numbers in the interval (0,1] whose Engel expansions coincide with their greedy expansions has measure zero, and Hausdorff dimension 1/2.

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