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A002937 An exotic continued fraction (for real root of x^3-8x-10).
(Formerly M2284 N0903)
+0
2
3, 3, 7, 4, 2, 30, 1, 8, 3, 1, 1, 1, 9, 2, 2, 1, 3, 22986, 2, 1, 32, 8, 2, 1, 8, 55, 1, 5, 2, 28, 1, 5, 1, 1501790, 1, 2, 1, 7, 6, 1, 1, 5, 2, 1, 6, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 2, 4, 3, 1, 35657 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

0,1

REFERENCES

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

H. M. Stark, An explanation of some exotic continued fractions found by Brillhart, pp. 21-35 of A. O. L. Atkin and B. J. Birch, editors, Computers in Number Theory. Academic Press, NY, 1971.

J. Roberts, Lure of the Integers, Math. Assoc. America, 1992, p. 227.

LINKS

Harry J. Smith, Table of n, a(n) for n=0,...,20000

EXAMPLE

3.318628217750185659109680153... = 3 + 1/(3 + 1/(7 + 1/(4 + 1/(2 + ...)))) [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), May 11 2009]

PROGRAM

(PARI) { allocatemem(932245000); default(realprecision, 21000); x=NULL; p=x^3 - 8*x - 10; rs=polroots(p); r=real(rs[1]); c=contfrac(r); for (n=1, 20001, write("b002937.txt", n-1, " ", c[n])); } [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), May 11 2009]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A160332 = Decimal expansion. [From Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), May 11 2009]

Sequence in context: A156838 A100587 A099282 this_sequence A085870 A096633 A118362

Adjacent sequences: A002934 A002935 A002936 this_sequence A002938 A002939 A002940

KEYWORD

cofr,nonn

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

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