OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
This continued fraction is needed to solve completely Archimedes' cattle problem.
See Mathematica program in A096151. - Robert G. Wilson v, Dec 06 2014
LINKS
C. Elsner, On Error Sums for Square Roots of Positive Integers with Applications to Lucas and Pell Numbers, J. Int. Seq. 17 (2014) # 14.4.4
I. Vardi, Archimedes' cattle problem, Am. Math. Monthly 105 (1998), pp. 305-319.
FORMULA
a(n+92) = a(n) for n>0.
MAPLE
cfrac(sqrt(4729494), 500, quotients);
MATHEMATICA
ContinuedFraction@ Sqrt@ 4729494 // Flatten (* Robert G. Wilson v, Dec 06 2014 *)
PROG
(PARI) default(realprecision, 100); contfrac(sqrt(4729494)) \\ Michel Marcus, Mar 12 2015
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,cofr
AUTHOR
Carsten Elsner, Jan 16 2014
STATUS
approved