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A040002 Continued fraction for sqrt(5). 26

%I #50 Feb 16 2024 14:50:18

%S 2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,

%T 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,

%U 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4

%N Continued fraction for sqrt(5).

%C Decimal expansion of 11/45. - _Natan Arie Consigli_, Jan 19 2016

%H Harry J. Smith, <a href="/A040002/b040002.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..20000</a>

%H G. Xiao, <a href="http://wims.unice.fr/~wims/en_tool~number~contfrac.en.html">Contfrac</a>

%H <a href="/index/Con#confC">Index entries for continued fractions for constants</a>

%H <a href="/index/Con#constant">Index of eventually constant sequences</a>

%H <a href="/index/Di#divseq">Index of divisibility sequences</a>

%H <a href="/index/Rec#order_01">Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients</a>, signature (1).

%F a(0) = 2, a(n) = 4 n>0. - _Natan Arie Consigli_, Jan 19 2016

%F From _Elmo R. Oliveira_, Feb 16 2024: (Start)

%F G.f.: 2*(1+x)/(1-x).

%F E.g.f.: 4*exp(x) - 2.

%F a(n) = 2*A040000(n). (End)

%e 2.236067977499789696409173668... = 2 + 1/(4 + 1/(4 + 1/(4 + 1/(4 + ...)))). - _Harry J. Smith_, Jun 01 2009

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

%t ContinuedFraction[Sqrt[5],300] (* _Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky_, Mar 04 2011 *)

%t PadRight[{2},120,{4}] (* _Harvey P. Dale_, Jul 06 2019 *)

%o (PARI) { allocatemem(932245000); default(realprecision, 26000); x=contfrac(sqrt(5)); for (n=0, 20000, write("b040002.txt", n, " ", x[n+1])); } \\ _Harry J. Smith_, Jun 01 2009

%Y Cf. A002163 (decimal expansion), A001077/A001076 (convergents), A248235 (Egyptian fraction).

%Y Cf. Continued fraction for sqrt(a^2+1) = (a, 2a, 2a, 2a....): A040000 (contfrac(sqrt(2)) = (1,2,2,...)), A040002, A040006, A040012, A040020, A040030, A040042, A040056, A040072, A040090, A040110 (contfrac(sqrt(122)) = (11,22,22,...)), A040132, A040156, A040182, A040210, A040240, A040272, A040306, A040342, A040380, A040420 (contfrac(sqrt(442)) = (21,42,42,...)), A040462, A040506, A040552, A040600, A040650, A040702, A040756, A040812, A040870, A040930 (contfrac(sqrt(962)) = (31,62,62,...)).

%K nonn,cofr,easy,cons

%O 0,1

%A _N. J. A. Sloane_

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