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Investigations about the Euler–Mascheroni constant and harmonic numbers

  • Robert Bil and Hartmut Laue EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: January 27, 2016

Abstract

We introduce a sequence of real functions which converges to the constant function xγ where γ is the Euler–Mascheroni constant. We determine a point where the resulting approximation of γ is very fast. Furthermore, we use our approach to improve known estimates in the pursuit of a conjecture related to harmonic numbers, part of which is settled.

MSC 2010: 40A25; 11Y60; 33B15

Acknowledgements

We should like to thank the referee for his valuable comments and suggestions which led to a thorough revision of a former version of this note.

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Received: 2014-8-27
Revised: 2015-12-22
Accepted: 2016-1-13
Published Online: 2016-1-27
Published in Print: 2016-11-1

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