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Square Roots of Integers Expressed as Infinite Series
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2016
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It is Well known that square roots of integers and rational numbers can be calculated by means of recurrence relations. Further, the same recurrence relations can sometimes be used to express a square root as a continued fraction. From a certain type of recurrence relation which gives a square root it is also possible to express that root as a rapidly convergent infinite series. As might be expected, the method is connected with the theory of continued fractions, and that connection will be given.
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page 104 note * Solutions of Pell’s equation, x2 - Dy2 = ± 1, have been tabulated for all integers D up to 2000. See E. L. Ince, Cycles of Reduced Ideals in Quadratic Fields, B.A. Tables, 1934.