OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Convergents A119811: [2/1,7/3,72/31,9511/4095,1246930216/536870911,...], where the denominators of the convergents are equal to [2^A000129(n-1)-1] and A000129 is the Pell numbers. The number of digits in these partial quotients are (beginning at n=1): [1,1,2,3,6,13,30,72,174,420,1013,2445,5901,14246,34391,83027,...].
LINKS
W. W. Adams and J. L. Davison, A remarkable class of continued fractions, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 65 (1977), 194-198.
P. G. Anderson, T. C. Brown, P. J.-S. Shiue, A simple proof of a remarkable continued fraction identity, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 123 (1995), 2005-2009.
J. L. Davison, A series and its associated continued fraction, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 63 (1977), 29-32.
EXAMPLE
c = 2.32258852258806773012144068278798408011950250800432925665718...
The partial quotients start:
a(1) = 2^1; a(2) = 2^1 + 2^0; a(3) = 2^3 + 2^1;
a(4) = 2^7 + 2^2; a(5) = 2^17 + 2^5; a(6) = 2^41 + 2^12;
A001333(n) = ( (1+sqrt(2))^n + (1-sqrt(2))^n )/2;
A000129(n) = ( (1+sqrt(2))^n - (1-sqrt(2))^n )/(2*sqrt(2)).
MATHEMATICA
(* b = A001333 *) b[0] = 1; b[1] = 1; b[n_] := b[n] = 2 b[n-1] + b[n-2]; a[1] = 2; a[n_] := 2^b[n-1] + 2^Fibonacci[n-2, 2]; Array[a, 10] (* Jean-François Alcover, May 04 2017 *)
PROG
(PARI) {a(n)=if(n==1, 2, 2^round(((1+sqrt(2))^(n-1)+(1-sqrt(2))^(n-1))/2) +2^round(((1+sqrt(2))^(n-2)-(1-sqrt(2))^(n-2))/(2*sqrt(2))))}
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
cofr,nonn
AUTHOR
Paul D. Hanna, May 26 2006
STATUS
approved