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A040031 Continued fraction for sqrt(38). 2
6, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6, 12, 6 (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)=9+3*(-1)^n-6*[C(2*n,n) mod 2], with n>=0 [From Paolo P. Lava (paoloplava(AT)gmail.com), Jun 09 2009]

EXAMPLE

6.1644140029689764502501923... = 6 + 1/(6 + 1/(12 + 1/(6 + 1/(12 + ...)))) [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jun 04 2009]

MAPLE

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

MATHEMATICA

ContinuedFraction[Sqrt[38], 300] (*From Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Mar 06 2011*)

PROG

(PARI) { allocatemem(932245000); default(realprecision, 38000); x=contfrac(sqrt(38)); for (n=0, 20000, write("b040031.txt", n, " ", x[n+1])); } [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jun 04 2009]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A010492 Decimal expansion. [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jun 04 2009]

Sequence in context: A163757 A109538 A173319 * A205695 A205029 A124508

Adjacent sequences:  A040028 A040029 A040030 * A040032 A040033 A040034

KEYWORD

nonn,cofr,easy

AUTHOR

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

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