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A040012 Continued fraction for sqrt(17). 4
4, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 (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)=8-4*[C(2*n,n) mod 2], with n>=0 [From Paolo P. Lava (paoloplava(AT)gmail.com), Jun 11 2009]

EXAMPLE

4.123105625617660549821409855... = 4 + 1/(8 + 1/(8 + 1/(8 + 1/(8 + ...)))) [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jun 03 2009]

MAPLE

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

MATHEMATICA

ContinuedFraction[Sqrt[17], 300] (*From Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Mar 05 2011*)

PROG

(PARI) { allocatemem(932245000); default(realprecision, 37000); x=contfrac(sqrt(17)); for (n=0, 20000, write("b040012.txt", n, " ", x[n+1])); } [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jun 03 2009]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A010473 Decimal expansion. [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jun 03 2009]

Sequence in context: A032566 A200357 A201405 * A054006 A029679 A141284

Adjacent sequences:  A040009 A040010 A040011 * A040013 A040014 A040015

KEYWORD

nonn,cofr,easy

AUTHOR

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

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