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Denominators of convergents to the square root of the golden ratio.
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%I #15 Aug 18 2022 14:22:33

%S 1,3,4,11,125,386,2055,2441,26465,28906,84277,450291,1435150,7626041,

%T 9061191,25748423,112054883,137803306,249858189,637519684,2799936925,

%U 143434302859,146234239784,728371261995,1602976763774,3934324789543,123567045239607

%N Denominators of convergents to the square root of the golden ratio.

%H I. J. Good, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.1992.123">Complex Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers, Continued Fractions, and the Square Root of the Golden Ratio (Condensed Version)</a>, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 43 (1992), 837-842.

%H I. J. Good, <a href="https://www.fq.math.ca/Scanned/31-1/good.pdf">Complex Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers, Continued Fractions, and the Square Root of the Golden Ratio</a>, The Fibonacci Quarterly 31.1 (1993):7-20.

%F a(n) = A331692(n)*a(n-1) + a(n-2) for n >= 2. - _Jianing Song_, Aug 18 2022

%e 1, 4/3, 5/4, 14/11, 159/125, 491/386, 2614/2055, 3105/2441, 33664/26465, ... = A225204/A225205

%t Denominator[Convergents[Sqrt[GoldenRatio], 20]]

%Y Cf. A001622, A139339, A331692, A225204 (numerators).

%K nonn,frac

%O 0,2

%A _Eric W. Weisstein_, May 01 2013