If Φ is a real number with |Φ| ≧ 1, then a semiregular continuet fraction development of Φ is denoted by where the ai are integers such that |ai| ≧ 2. The expansions arise geo-. metrically by considering the sequence of divided cells of two-dimensional grids (see [1]), and are described by the following algorithm: for all n ≧ 0, taking Φ = Φ.0 Hence where in this case the square brackets are used to signify the integer-part function. It follows that each irrational Φ has uncountably many such expansions, none of which has a constantly equal to 2 (or -2) for large n.