29 Jan
2012
29 Jan
'12
11:09 a.m.
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Warren Smith <warren.wds@gmail.com> wrote:
How did I do that? Well, again, one way is using generating functions.
But the continued fraction of quadratic irrationals is ultimately periodic and once you know its period you can easily solve for the surd, so again, this is easy to construct from the desired sequence without any intelligence.
If you can do that without any intelligence, I wonder what you could do with a lot of intelligence! Kerry