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analyticalengine:bernoullinumbercalculation [2015-04-21 08:53] – created raineranalyticalengine:bernoullinumbercalculation [2015-05-06 18:17] rainer
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-====== Note G and the calculation of Bernoulli numbers ======+__false__
  
-See [[wp>Bernoulli numbers]] in Wikipedia for details on Bernoulli numbers. 
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-They may have been selected as an example because: 
-  * They cannot be enumerated using the //Difference Engine// 
-  * The values seem to be fairly random 
-  * The values require a machine that can handle very large numbers 
-  * In approximations of trigonometric functions, they allow less calculating steps than other approximations known at that time. Note that Tchebysheff's Approximation was published several years later (1859). 
-  * They are a sequence where the n-th number can be calculated from the previous numbers 
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-Note that variants for the indexing and sign for Bernoulli numbers were proposed since that time; the later forms allow shorter writing of the formulas.  
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-In //Note G//, equation 8 shows the recursion formula used by AAL: 
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-<nowiki> 
-`0 = -1/2 * (2n-1)/(2n+1) + B_1 ((2n)/2) + B_3 ((2n*(2n-1)*(2n-2))/(2*3*4)) + ... + B_(2n-1)` 
-</nowiki> 
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-and  in terms of the number to be calculated: 
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-<nowiki> 
-`-B_(2n-1) = -1/2 * (2n-1)/(2n+1) + B_1 ((2n)/2) + B_3 ((2n*(2n-1)*(2n-2))/(2*3*4)) + B_5 ((2n*(2n-1)... (2n-4))/(2*3*4*5*6)) +...` 
-</nowiki> 
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-Using `A_i` as abbreviation for the factors gives 
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-<nowiki> 
-`B_(2n-1) = A_0(n) + A_1(n) * B_1 + A_3(n) * B_3 + ... + A_5(n) * B_(2n-3)` 
-</nowiki> 
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-In the text, AAL wrotes: //A<sub>1</sub>, A<sub>3</sub> &c. being ... functions of n ...//, but does not use a corresponding notation in the equation, which was done in the above equation. 
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-Thus, the coefficients -- which are not given in //Note G//, are: 
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-`A_0(n) = 1/2 * (2n-1)/(2n+1)` 
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-`A_1(n) = -(2n) / 2` 
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-`A_3(n) = A_1(n) * (2n-1)/3 * (2n-2)/4` 
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-`A_5(n) = A_3(n) * (2n-3)/5 * (2n-4)/6` 
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-This makes clear, that  for `A_5` and the following the calculation steps are structurally equal and thus can be calculated within a loop. 
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-Note the signs in contrast to //Note G//. 
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-(to be continued) 
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