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Rippon, Philip and Taylor, Harold
(2004).
URL: http://www.engineering.sdstate.edu/~fib/fibpreviou...
Abstract
The continued fraction for , where
is a positive integer, has the periodic form
where is a palindrome and
. The period
is assumed to be
of minimal length. We give several new results concerning the intriguing question: How can we distinguish between those integers for which
is even and
those for which is odd?
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- 3631
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- Journal Item
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- 0015-0517
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- Keywords
- continued fraction; square root; period; Euler-Muir theorem.
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Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Mathematics and Statistics
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- Philip Rippon