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### Is the Iterated Continued fraction from Convergent​s for Pi/2 exactly 3/2?

Iterated continued fraction from convergents are described at https://oeis.org/wiki/Convergents_constant and https://oeis.org/wiki/Table_of_convergents_constants. Do you think there is any error in ...
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### Extract a Pattern of Iterated continued fractions from convergents

I have been working on an article at https://oeis.org/wiki/Table_of_convergents_constants where I posted a table of "convergents constants" (defined at https://oeis.org/wiki/Convergents_constant) ...
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### What causes the convergence of Iterated continued fractions from convergents?

Here is a small discovery I stumbled across a few weeks ago. I hope at least one person will find it interesting enough to help me. The iterated continued fractions from convergents (or convergents ...
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### Motivation behind this eccentric Ramanujan Identity

I just visited the MathJaX page due to the Math.SE website showing some problems while loading the page. I saw some demo math equations samples at this page, when this identity actually caught my ...
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### How to find the number of continued fraction from a periodic representation?

Problem Find the number that represented by $[2,2,2 \ldots]$ I know it wasn't difficult, but I was absent the last two classes. So I just want to make sure that I got it right. My attempt was, ...
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### How to find continued fraction of the form $a\sqrt{b}$?

For the form $\sqrt{b}$, I could just apply the recursive quadratic formula: $$P_{k+1} = a_kQ_k - P_k$$ $$Q_{k+1} = \dfrac{d - P^2_{k+1}}{Q_k}$$ $$\alpha_k = \dfrac{P_k + \sqrt{d}}{Q_k}$$ ...
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### Deriving a trivial continued fraction for the exponential

Lately, I learned about the following continued fraction for the exponential function: $$\exp(x)=1+\cfrac{x}{1-\cfrac{x/2}{1+x/2-\cfrac{x/3}{1+x/3-\cfrac{x/4}{1+x/4-\dots}}}}$$ I thought it was ...
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### A question on continued fraction

Let $a$ be a positive irrational number. Let $p_k/q_k, p_{k+1}/q_{k+1}$ be two consecutive convergents of its simple continued fraction, where $k\ge 1$. Is it possible that both ...
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### Proving the continued fraction representation of $\sqrt{2}$

There's a question in Spivak's Calculus (I don't happen to have the question number in front of me in the 2nd Edition, it's Chapter 21, Problem 7) that develops the concept of continued fraction, ...
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### Solving equations using continued fractions?

We solve the pell equation using the continued fraction for square root of 2. What equations can we solve using the continued fraction of cube roots (and other numbers too)?
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### What can Euler's identity teach us about (generalised) continued fractions?

We know that $$e^{i \pi} = -1 .$$ We can transform all of the components of this identity into (generalized) continued fractions. When we start of with $\pi$, we see that  \Big(3+ ...
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### What is the length of a continued fraction expansion of a rational number?

I was reviewing quantum factorization and am slightly unclear on a classical detail of order-finding. Given a (suitably nice) periodic function $f$ with unknown period $r$ and a power of two \$N > ...
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### Continued Fraction expansion of tan(1)

Prove that continued fraction of tan(1)=[1;1,1,3,1,5,1,7,1,9,1,11,...]. I tried using the same sort of trick used for finding continued fractions of quadratic irrationals and trying to find a ...
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### Adding integers to an infinite continued fraction expansion doesn't change the value?

I'm learning about continued fractions, and I've enjoyed them so far, but I'm unsure if I've done the following correctly. I have no real experience with analysis, so I'm not sure if my reasoning is ...
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### Continued Fraction of an Infinite Sum

What is the continued fraction for $\displaystyle\sum_{i=1}^n\frac{1}{2^{2^i}}$ It seems to be "almost" periodic, but I can't figure out the exact way to express it.
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### Why are some mathematical constants irrational by their continued fraction while others aren't?

Catalan's Constant and quite a few other mathematical constants are known to have an infinite continued fraction (see the bottom of that webpage). On wikipedia (I'm sorry, I can't post anymore ...
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### How do I prove the partial denominators formula of the Bauer-Muir transformation of a generalized continued fraction?

Notation: $b_{0}+\underset{n=1}{\overset{\infty }{\mathbb{K}}}\left( a_{n}/b_{n}\right)$ is the Gauss Notation for generalized continued fractions. Description of the Bauer-Muir transformation ...
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### Continued fraction for $\frac{1}{e-2}$

A couple of years ago I found the following continued fraction for $\frac1{e-2}$: $$\frac{1}{e-2} = 1+\cfrac1{2 + \cfrac2{3 + \cfrac3{4 + \cfrac4{5 + \cfrac5{6 + \cfrac6{7 + \cfrac7{\cdots}}}}}}}$$ ...
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### A nicer proof of Lagrange's 'best approximations' law?

Let $p_N/q_N$ be the $N^\text{th}$ convergent of the continued fraction for some irrational number $\alpha$. It turns out that for any other approximation $p/q$ (with $q \le q_N$) which isn't a ...
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