An unusual continued fraction

Abstract: We consider the real number

s i g m a

with continued fraction expansion

[a_{0}, a_{1}, a_{2}, l d o t s] = [1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 8, 1, 2, 1, 4, 1, 2, 1, 16, l d o t s]

, where

a_{i}

is the largest power of

2

dividing

i + 1

. We compute the irrationality measure of

s i g m a^{2}

and demonstrate that

s i g m a^{2}

(and

s i g m a

) are both transcendental numbers. We also show that certain partial quotients of

s i g m a^{2}

grow doubly exponentially, thus confirming a conjecture of Hanna and Wilson.

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