A244015 Denominators of rational approximations to sqrt(6) obtained from Newton's method.

1, 2, 20, 1960, 18819920, 1735166549767840, 14749861913749949808286047759680, 1065814268211609269094400465471990022332221793124358274759711360

Offset: 0

Author

N. J. A. Sloane, Jun 18 2014

Keywords

• nonn
• frac

Examples

			2, 5/2, 49/20, 4801/1960, 46099201/18819920, ...
		

Crossrefs

Cf. A244014 (numerators).

The analogs for sqrt(k), k=2,3,5,6,7 are: A001601/A051009, A002812/A071579, A081459/A081460, A244014/A244015, A244012/A244013.

Programs

Magma

m:=9; f:=[n eq 1 select 2 else (Self(n-1)+6/Self(n-1))/2: n in [1..m]]; [Denominator(f[n]): n in [1..m]]; // Vincenzo Librandi, Jan 12 2016

Maple

N:=6;
s:=[floor(sqrt(N))];
M:=8;
for n from 1 to M do
x:=s[n];
h:=(N-x^2)/(2*x);
s:=[op(s),x+h]; od:
lprint(s);
s1:=map(numer,s);
s2:=map(denom,s);