jeff@ics.uci.edu (Jeff Erickson) (03/16/91)
rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson) writes: | I think it turns out that non-rational numbers have a continued | fraction expansion that is eventually periodic (i.e. after a finite | number of coefficients in the expansion, a block of coefficients | repeats infinitely), while all rational numbers have a finite | continued fraction expansion. Only (and all) roots of quadratic equations have periodic continued fraction expansions. Numbers like 2^(1/3), log(2), and pi do not. -- Jeff Erickson \ My dish of love is overflows, jeff@ics.uci.edu \ and I'm a heppy, heppy ket! jeff@128.195.1.1 \ -- Krazy Kat