Continued fractions with period 1

1 · John Cook · Aug. 14, 2020, 1:20 a.m.
A while back I wrote about continued fractions of square roots. That post cited a theorem that if d is not a perfect square, then the continued fraction representation of d is periodic. The period consists of a palindrome followed by 2⌊√d⌋. See that post for details and examples. One thing the post did not […]...