Feller's coin-tossing constants

Feller's coin-tossing constants are a set of numerical constants which describe asymptotic probabilities that in n independent tosses of a fair coin, no run of k consecutive heads (or, equally, tails) appears.

William Feller showed that if this probability is written as p(n,k) then

where αk is the smallest positive real root of

and

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