Notes on a Double Inequality for Ratios of any Two Neighbouring Non-zero Bernoulli Numbers

Feng Qi^{1, 2,}

¹Institute of Mathematics, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454010, China

²College of Mathematics, Inner Mongolia University for Nationalities, Tongliao 028043, Inner Mongolia, China;School of Mathematical Sciences, Tianjin Polytechnic University, Tianjin 300387, China

Cite this paper:
Feng Qi. Notes on a Double Inequality for Ratios of any Two Neighbouring Non-zero Bernoulli Numbers. Turkish Journal of Analysis and Number Theory. 2018; 6(5):129-131. doi: 10.12691/tjant-6-5-1

Abstract

In the paper, the author notes on a double inequality published in “Feng Qi, A double inequality for the ratio of two non-zero neighbouring Bernoulli numbers, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 351 (2019), 1-5; Available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2018.10.049.”

Keywords:
double inequality ratio Bernoulli number Riemann zeta function open problem guess

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