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A040059 Continued fraction for sqrt(68). 3
8, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 4, 16, 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)=10+6*(-1)^n-8*[C(2*n,n) mod 2], with n>=0 [From Paolo P. Lava (paoloplava(AT)gmail.com), Jun 10 2009]

EXAMPLE

8.2462112512353210996428197... = 8 + 1/(4 + 1/(16 + 1/(4 + 1/(16 + ...)))) [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jun 08 2009]

MAPLE

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

MATHEMATICA

ContinuedFraction[Sqrt[68], 300] (*From Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky, Mar 08 2011*)

PROG

(PARI) { allocatemem(932245000); default(realprecision, 37000); x=contfrac(sqrt(68)); for (n=0, 20000, write("b040059.txt", n, " ", x[n+1])); } [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jun 08 2009]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A010520 Decimal expansion. [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Jun 08 2009]

Sequence in context: A156279 A203072 A131873 * A178603 A018810 A070485

Adjacent sequences:  A040056 A040057 A040058 * A040060 A040061 A040062

KEYWORD

nonn,cofr,easy

AUTHOR

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

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