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A040048 Continued fraction for sqrt(56). 3
7, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2, 14, 2 (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+6*(-1)^n-7*[C(2*n,n) mod 2], with n>=0 [From Paolo P. Lava (paoloplava(AT)gmail.com), Jun 10 2009]

EXAMPLE

7.4833147735478827711674974... = 7 + 1/(2 + 1/(14 + 1/(2 + 1/(14 + ...)))) [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jun 06 2009]

MAPLE

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

MATHEMATICA

ContinuedFraction[Sqrt[56], 300] (*From Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Mar 07 2011*)

PROG

(PARI) { allocatemem(932245000); default(realprecision, 30000); x=contfrac(sqrt(56)); for (n=0, 20000, write("b040048.txt", n, " ", x[n+1])); } [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jun 06 2009]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A010509 Decimal expansion. [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jun 06 2009]

Sequence in context: A090243 A145338 A104586 * A070429 A050092 A030406

Adjacent sequences:  A040045 A040046 A040047 * A040049 A040050 A040051

KEYWORD

nonn,cofr,easy

AUTHOR

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

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