Greatest Integer Function - A mess!

For positive integer n n , define

{ a n = n 2 + 20 d n = gcd ( a n , a n + 1 ) \begin{cases} a_n = n^2 + 20 \\ d_n = \gcd(a_n , a_{n+1} ) \end{cases}

Compute the value of { 2 n + 1 d n } \left \{\dfrac{2n + 1}{d_n} \right \}

Notations:

1 2 \frac12 1 4 \frac14 1 6 \frac16 0 0

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Use Euclid algorithm couple of times d N = ( ( N + 1 ) 2 + 20 , N 2 + 20 ) d N = ( N 2 + 20 , 2 N + 1 ) d_N=((N+1)^2+20,N^2+20) \implies d_N=(N^2+20,2N+1)

Note that d N 2 N + 1 d_N| 2N+1 , since d N d_N is the GCD of 2 N + 1 2N+1 and another number. Therefore the fractional part is 0 0 .

Chew-Seong Cheong
May 29, 2021

Since d n = gcd ( a n , a n + 1 ) d_n = \gcd(a_n, a_{n+1}) , we can write a n = d n b n a_n = d_n b_n and a n + 1 = d n b n + 1 a_{n+1} = d_n b_{n+1} . where b n b_n and b n + 1 b_{n+1} are positive integers, and b n + 1 > b n b_{n+1} > b_n . Then we have:

2 n + 1 d n = ( n + 1 ) 2 + 20 ( n 2 + 20 ) d n = a n + 1 a n d n = d n ( b n + 1 b n ) d n = b n + 1 b n \frac {2n+1}{d_n} = \frac {(n+1)^2+20 - (n^2+20)}{d_n} = \frac {a_{n+1}-a_n}{d_n} = \frac {d_n(b_{n+1}-b_n)}{d_n} = b_{n+1} - b_n

Therefore { 2 n + 1 d n } = { b n + 1 b n } = 0 \left \{ \dfrac {2n+1}{d_n} \right \} = \{b_{n+1} - b_n \} = \boxed 0 .

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