14 May
2019
14 May
'19
9:47 p.m.
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 5:44 PM Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
It may not be obvious, but periodic continued fractions with Gaussian integer terms can represent algebraic numbers beyond quadratic.
Wow! It certainly wasn't obvious to me! Your example was a constructible quartic. Are all periodic Gaussian cf's constructible? What about with Eisenstein integers? -- Mike Stay - metaweta@gmail.com http://math.ucr.edu/~mike https://reperiendi.wordpress.com