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A100864
Continued fraction expansion of the square of the constant (A100338) which has the continued fraction equal to A006519 (highest power of 2 dividing n).
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1, 1, 4, 1, 74, 1, 8457, 1, 186282390, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 430917181166219, 11, 37, 1, 4, 2, 41151315877490090952542206046, 11, 5, 3, 12, 2, 34, 2, 9, 8, 1, 1, 2, 7, 13991468824374967392702752173757116934238293984253807017, 3, 4, 1, 3, 100, 4
OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
Decimal expansion is 1.832967032396... (see A100863). Records are doubly exponential and form A100865.
LINKS
Dzmitry Badziahin and Jeffrey Shallit, An Unusual Continued Fraction, arXiv:1505.00667 [math.NT], 2015.
Dzmitry Badziahin and Jeffrey Shallit, An unusual continued fraction, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 144 (2016), 1887-1896.
PROG
(PARI) {CFM=contfracpnqn(vector(650, n, 2^valuation(n, 2))); contfrac((CFM[1, 1]/CFM[2, 1])^2, 71)}
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
cofr,nonn
AUTHOR
Paul D. Hanna, Nov 21 2004
STATUS
approved