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Continued Fractions and Radicals
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<a class="reflocal" href="cf009.xml"> Reversing a CF </a> <br />
<a class="reflocal" href="cf008.xml"> Euclid's Algorithm </a> <br />
<a class="reflocal" href="cf007.xml"> Sequences from CF's </a> <br />
<a class="reflocal" href="cf006.xml"> 
 Generaized Linear CF's 
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<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
  <mrow>
    <mi>a</mi>
    <mi>x</mi>
    <msup>
      <mi></mi>
      <mrow><mi>2</mi></mrow>
    </msup>
    <mo>+</mo>
    <mi>b</mi>
    <mi>x</mi>
    <mo>+</mo>
    <mi>c</mi>
    <mo>=</mo> 
    <mi>0</mi>
  </mrow>
</math>

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<a class="reflocal" href="cf004.xml"> Hunting divergent CF's </a> <br />

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<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
  <mrow>
    <mi>a</mi>
    <msub>
      <mi></mi>
      <mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>1</mi></mrow>
    </msub>
    <mo>=</mo>
    <mfrac>
      <mrow>
        <mi>3</mi>
        <mi>(</mi>
        <mi>1</mi>
        <mo>+</mo>
        <mi>a</mi>
        <msub>
          <mi></mi>
          <mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow>
        </msub>
        <mi>)</mi>
      </mrow>
      <mrow>
        <mi>3</mi>
        <mo>+</mo>
        <mi>a</mi>
        <msub>
          <mi></mi>
          <mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow>
        </msub>
      </mrow>
    </mfrac>
  </mrow>
</math>

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<a class="reflocal" href="cf002.xml"> Fibonacci Continued Fraction </a> <br />

<a class="reflocal" href="cf003.xml"> AIRA's </a>  Almost Isosceles Right Angled Triangles
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<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
  <mrow>
    <mi>n</mi>
    <mo>=</mo>

    <mfrac>
      <mrow>
        <mi>1</mi>
      </mrow>
      <mrow>

        <mi>1</mi>
        <mo>-</mo>
        <mi>n</mi>
        <mo>+</mo>

    <mfrac>
      <mrow>
        <mi>2</mi>
      </mrow>
      <mrow>

        <mi>2</mi>
        <mo>-</mo>
        <mi>n</mi>
        <mo>+</mo>

    <mfrac>
      <mrow>
        <mi>3</mi>
      </mrow>
      <mrow>

        <mi>3</mi>
        <mo>-</mo>
        <mi>n</mi>
        <mo>+</mo>
        <mo>...</mo>

      </mrow>
    </mfrac>

      </mrow>
    </mfrac>

      </mrow>
    </mfrac>

  </mrow>
</math>

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<a class="reflocal" href="cf011.xml"> Ramanujan and an interesting street number </a>
<math xmlns="&mathml;">
  <mi>1</mi>
  <mo>+</mo>
  <mi>2</mi>
  <mo>+</mo>
  <mo>...</mo>
  <mo>+</mo>
  <mo>(</mo>
  <mi>n</mi>
  <mo>-</mo>
  <mi>1</mi>
  <mo>)</mo>
  <mo>=</mo>
  <mo>(</mo>
  <mi>n</mi>
  <mo>+</mo>
  <mi>1</mi>
  <mo>)</mo>
  <mo>+</mo>
  <mo>(</mo>
  <mi>n</mi>
  <mo>+</mo>
  <mi>2</mi>
  <mo>)</mo>
  <mo>+</mo>
  <mo>...</mo>
  <mo>+</mo>
  <mi>m</mi>
</math> <br />

<a class="reflocal" href="cf012.xml"> Recursive seqence {1/(an+b)} </a> <br />

<a class="reflocal" href="cf013.xml"> Eulers Identity </a> 
Alternating sum expressed as a cf<br />

<a class="reflocal" href="cf014.xml"> Trigonomentric Functions Table </a> 
The continued fractions expansions. <br />

<a class="reflocal" href="cf015.xml"> Product and Addition of cf's </a>
Closure. <br />

<a class="reflocal" href="cf016.xml"> Converting Power Series to Contined Fractions </a>
Issues and problem generalization. <br />

<a class="reflocal" href="cf017.xml"> Convergence of Periodic cfs </a> 
Algebra simplification for faster convergence. <br />

<a class="reflocal" href="cf018.xml"> Algebraic and Visual Representation of cfs</a>
Algebra of continued fractions and circuits. <br />

<a class="reflocal" href="cf019.xml"> 
<math xmlns="&mathml;">
  <mfrac>
    <mrow>

  <mi>y</mi>
  <msub>
    <mi></mi>
    <mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>+</mo><mi>1</mi></mrow>
  </msub>
    </mrow>
    <mrow>
  <mi>y</mi>
  <msub>
    <mi></mi>
    <mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow>
  </msub>

</mrow>
  </mfrac>
  <mo>=</mo>
  <mi>y</mi>
  <msub>
    <mi></mi>
    <mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow>
  </msub>
  <mo>-</mo>
  <mi>y</mi>
  <msub>
    <mi></mi>
    <mrow><mi>n</mi><mo>-</mo><mi>1</mi></mrow>
  </msub>
  
</math>
</a> Not a cf, but an interesting number.<br />



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<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
  <mrow>
    <msqrt>
      <mrow>
        <mi>1</mi>
        <mo>+</mo>
        <mi>2</mi>
     <msqrt>
      <mrow>
        <mi>1</mi>
        <mo>+</mo>
        <mi>3</mi>
                                                                                   
    <msqrt>
      <mrow>
        <mi>1</mi>
        <mo>+</mo>
        <mi>...</mi>
      </mrow>
    </msqrt>
                                                                                   
      </mrow>
    </msqrt>
                                                                                   
      </mrow>
    </msqrt>
  </mrow>
</math>
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<a class="reflocal" href="../cr/r001.xml"> Nested Square Roots of 2 </a>
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<a class="reflocal" href="../cr/r002.xml"> Calculating Pi </a>
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<a class="reflocal" href="../cr/r003.xml"> Solving a quadratic equation </a>
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<a class="reflocal" href="../cr/r005.xml"> 
  Constructing a Continued Radical From a Known Number </a> <br />

















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<h2> Challenges </h2>
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<li> Find the CF expansion of

<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
  <mrow>
    <mi>log</mi>
    <msub>
      <mi></mi>
      <mrow><mi>b</mi></mrow>
    </msub>
    <mi>n</mi>
  </mrow>
</math>
.

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<li>
Find the CF for

<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
  <mrow>
    <msubsup>
      <mo>&Integral;</mo>
      <mrow>
        <mi>0</mi>
      </mrow>
      <mrow>
        <mi>x</mi>
      </mrow>
    </msubsup>
    <mi>e</mi>
    <msup>
      <mi></mi>
      <mrow>
        <mo>-</mo>
        <mi>x</mi>
        <msup>
          <mi></mi>
          <mrow><mi>2</mi></mrow>
        </msup>
      </mrow>
    </msup>
    <mi>dx</mi>
  </mrow>
</math>
.
 Derive it.

</li>

<li>

Find the continued fraction associated with

<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
  <mrow>
    <mi>s</mi>
    <mo>(</mo>
    <mi>n</mi>
    <mo>)</mo>
    <mi>=</mi>
    <mfrac>
      <mrow>
        <mi>n</mi>
        <mo>(</mo>
        <mi>n</mi>
        <mo>+</mo>
        <mi>1</mi>
        <mo>)</mo>
      </mrow>
      <mrow><mi>2</mi></mrow>
    </mfrac>
  </mrow>
</math>

.

</li>

<li>
Can cf's be used to calculate the floor and ceiling functions?
 Reference to page 170 of Niven and Zucherman in 
 "An Introduction to The Theory of Numbers".

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Links<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan">Rananujan</a> &nbsp; 
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continued_fraction">wikipedia: Continued fraction</a> &nbsp; 
<a href="http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/cfINTRO.html">An Introduction to the Continued Fraction </a> &nbsp; 

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