Year of Award: 1997

Publication Information: The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 103, 1996, pp. 854-869

Summary: This paper is written for undergraduate students to see something of the process that goes into mathematical research by documenting the entire process for this case study in the analysis of an interesting sequence of numbers.

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About the Author(s):  John Brillhart was at the University of Arizona at the time of publication and Patrick Morton was at Wellesley College.