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A periodic continued fraction is a continued fraction (generally a regular continued fraction) whose terms eventually repeat from some point onwards. The minimal number of repeating terms is called the period of the continued fraction. All nontrivial periodic continued fractions represent irrational numbers. In general, an infinite simple fraction (periodic or otherwise) represents a unique irrational number, and each irrational number has a unique infinite continued fraction.
The square root of a squarefree integer has a periodic continued fraction of the form
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(Rose 1994, p. 130), where the repeating portion (excluding the last term) is symmetric upon reversal, and the central term may appear either once or twice.
If is not a square number, then the terms of the continued fraction of satisfy
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An even stronger result is that a continued fraction is periodic iff it is a root of a quadratic polynomial. Calling the portion of a number remaining after a given convergent the "tail," it must be true that the relationship between the number and terms in its tail is of the form
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which can only lead to a quadratic equation.
The periods of the continued fractions of the square roots of the first few nonsquare integers 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, ... (OEIS A000037) are 1, 2, 1, 2, 4, 2, 1, 2, 2, 5, ... (OEIS A013943; Williams 1981, Jacobson et al. 1995). These numbers and their continued fraction representations are summarized in the following table.
2 | 22 | ||
3 | 23 | ||
5 | 24 | ||
6 | 26 | ||
7 | 27 | ||
8 | 28 | ||
10 | 29 | ||
11 | 30 | ||
12 | 31 | ||
13 | 32 | ||
14 | 33 | ||
15 | 34 | ||
17 | 35 | ||
18 | 37 | ||
19 | 38 | ||
20 | 39 | ||
21 | 40 |
An upper bound for the length of the period is roughly . The least positive s such that the continued fraction of has period , 2, ... are 2, 3, 41, 7, 13, 19, 58, 31, 106, ... (OEIS A013646). The first few values of such that the continued fraction of has period are summarized below for small .
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1 | A002522 | 2, 5, 10, 17, 26, 37, 50, 65, 82, 101, ... |
2 | A013642 | 3, 6, 8, 11, 12, 15, 18, 20, 24, 27, ... |
3 | A013643 | 41, 130, 269, 370, 458, ... |
4 | A013644 | 7, 14, 23, 28, 32, 33, 34, 47, 55, 60, ... |
5 | A010337 | 13, 29, 53, 74, 85, 89, 125, 173, 185, 218, ... |
6 | A020347 | 19, 21, 22, 45, 52, 54, 57, 59, 70, 77, ... |
7 | A010338 | 58, 73, 202, 250, 274, 314, 349, 425, ... |
8 | A020348 | 31, 44, 69, 71, 91, 92, 108, 135, 153, 158, ... |
9 | A010339 | 106, 113, 137, 149, 265, 389, 493, ... |
10 | A020349 | 43, 67, 86, 93, 115, 116, 118, 129, 154, 159, ... |
The values of at which the period of the continued fraction of increases are 1, 2, 3, 7, 13, 19, 31, 43, 46, 94, 139, 151, 166, 211, 331, 421, 526, 571, ... (OEIS A013645).
General identities for periodic continued fractions include
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(Wall 1948, pp. 39 and 83).
The first follows from
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Therefore,
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so plugging (13) into (12) gives
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Expanding
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and solving using the quadratic formula gives
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The analog of this treatment in the general case gives
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REFERENCES:
Liberman, H. Simple Continued Fractions: An Elementary to Research Level Approach. SMD Stock Analysts, 2003.
Rose, H. E. A Course in Number Theory, 2nd ed. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Rosen, K. H. Elementary Number Theory and Its Applications. New York: Addison-Wesley, p. 426, 1980.
Sloane, N. J. A. Sequences A010337, A010338, A010339, A013642, A013643, A013644, A013645, A013646, A020347, A020348, and A020349 in "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences."
Wall, H. S. Analytic Theory of Continued Fractions. New York: Chelsea, 1948.
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