Lengths of periods of continued fractions of square roots of integers (Q1035290)
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Lengths of periods of continued fractions of square roots of integers (English)
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2 November 2009
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Empirical study of the period length \(T\) of the continued fractions of \(\sqrt{Q}\) (for growing integers \(Q\)) shows several strange asymptotic results, for instance, \(T\leq C \sqrt{Q}\ln Q\). These results show important differences between the statistics of the elements of the continued fractions of random real numbers and of square roots of random integers.
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Gauss-Kuzmin theorem
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odd period lengths of continued fractions
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statistics of continued fractions
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