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A040003 Continued fraction for sqrt(6). 2
2, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,1

LINKS

Harry J. Smith, Table of n, a(n) for n=0,...,20000

G. Xiao, Contfrac

Index entries for continued fractions for constants

FORMULA

a(n)=3+(-1)^n-2*[C(2*n,n) mod 2], with n>=0 [From Paolo P. Lava (paoloplava(AT)gmail.com), Jun 11 2009]

EXAMPLE

2.449489742783178098197284074... = 2 + 1/(2 + 1/(4 + 1/(2 + 1/(4 + ...)))) [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jun 01 2009]

MAPLE

Digits := 100: convert(evalf(sqrt(N)), confrac, 90, 'cvgts'):

MATHEMATICA

ContinuedFraction[Sqrt[6], 300] (*From Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Mar 04 2011*)

PROG

(PARI) { allocatemem(932245000); default(realprecision, 21000); x=contfrac(sqrt(6)); for (n=0, 20000, write("b040003.txt", n, " ", x[n+1])); } [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jun 01 2009]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A010464 Decimal expansion. [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jun 01 2009]

Sequence in context: A054763 A100374 A045841 * A106469 A082508 A193562

Adjacent sequences:  A040000 A040001 A040002 * A040004 A040005 A040006

KEYWORD

nonn,cofr,easy

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

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