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%I A040005 #34 Aug 10 2025 14:40:00 %S A040005 2,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1, %T A040005 4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1, %U A040005 4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4 %N A040005 Continued fraction for sqrt(8). %D A040005 James J. Tattersall, Elementary Number Theory in Nine Chapters, Cambridge University Press, 1999, page 276. %H A040005 Harry J. Smith, <a href="/A040005/b040005.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..20000</a> %H A040005 G. Xiao, <a href="http://wims.unice.fr/~wims/en_tool~number~contfrac.en.html">Contfrac</a>. %H A040005 <a href="/index/Con#confC">Index entries for continued fractions for constants</a>. %H A040005 <a href="/index/Rec#order_02">Index entries for linear recurrences with constant coefficients</a>, signature (0,1). %F A040005 From _Amiram Eldar_, Nov 12 2023: (Start) %F A040005 Multiplicative with a(2^e) = 4, and a(p^e) = 1 for an odd prime p. %F A040005 Dirichlet g.f.: zeta(s) * (1 + 3/2^s). (End) %F A040005 G.f.: (2 + x + 2*x^2)/(1 - x^2). - _Stefano Spezia_, Jul 26 2025 %e A040005 2.828427124746190097603377448... = 2 + 1/(1 + 1/(4 + 1/(1 + 1/(4 + ...)))). - _Harry J. Smith_, Jun 02 2009 %p A040005 Digits := 100: convert(evalf(sqrt(N)),confrac,90,'cvgts'): %t A040005 ContinuedFraction[Sqrt[8],300] (* _Vladimir Joseph Stephan Orlovsky_, Mar 04 2011 *) %o A040005 (PARI) { allocatemem(932245000); default(realprecision, 16000); x=contfrac(sqrt(8)); for (n=0, 20000, write("b040005.txt", n, " ", x[n+1])); } \\ _Harry J. Smith_, Jun 02 2009 %Y A040005 Cf. A010466 (decimal expansion). %Y A040005 Essentially the same as A010685. %K A040005 nonn,cofr,easy,mult %O A040005 0,1 %A A040005 _N. J. A. Sloane_