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A040008 Continued fraction for sqrt(12). 2
3, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6, 2, 6 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,1

COMMENTS

Eventual period is (2,6) [Zak Seidov, Mar 05 2011]

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)=4+2*(-1)^n-3*[C(2*n,n) mod 2], with n>=0 [From Paolo P. Lava (paoloplava(AT)gmail.com), Jun 11 2009]

EXAMPLE

3.464101615137754587054892683... = 3 + 1/(2 + 1/(6 + 1/(2 + 1/(6 + ...)))) [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jun 02 2009]

MAPLE

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

MATHEMATICA

ContinuedFraction[Sqrt[12], 300] (*From Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Mar 05 2011*)

PROG

(PARI) { allocatemem(932245000); default(realprecision, 24000); x=contfrac(sqrt(12)); for (n=0, 20000, write("b040008.txt", n, " ", x[n+1])); } [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jun 02 2009]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A010469 Decimal expansion. [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jun 02 2009]

Sequence in context: A131897 A061187 A021758 * A129354 A129628 A071044

Adjacent sequences:  A040005 A040006 A040007 * A040009 A040010 A040011

KEYWORD

nonn,cofr,easy

AUTHOR

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

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