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A262213
Minimum number of 3's such that n*[n; 3, ..., 3, n] = [x; ..., x] for some x, where [...] denotes simple continued fractions.
3
2, 1, 5, 2, 5, 7, 5, 5, 2, 3, 5, 12, 23, 5, 11, 7, 5, 19, 5, 7, 11, 21, 5, 14, 38, 17, 23, 6, 5, 31, 23, 3, 23, 23, 5, 18, 59, 25, 5, 6, 23, 41, 11, 5, 65, 47, 11, 55, 14, 7, 77, 25, 17, 11, 23, 19, 20, 11, 5, 29, 95, 23, 47, 38, 11, 67, 23, 21, 23, 71, 5, 36, 56, 29, 59, 7, 77, 25, 11, 53
OFFSET
2,1
COMMENTS
Sequence A213892 lists fixed points of this sequence.
PROG
(PARI) cf(v)={t=v[#v]; forstep(i=#v-1, 1, -1, t=v[i]+1/t); t}
A262213(n, d=3)=for(k=1, 9e9, (c=contfrac(cf(vector(k+2, i, if(i>1&&i<k+2, d, n)))*n))[1]==c[#c]&&return(k))
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
M. F. Hasler, Sep 15 2015
STATUS
approved