Palindromes and periodic continued fractions
Number Theory
2016-06-01 v1
Abstract
This paper is devoted to a detailed exposition of geometry of continued fractions. We pay particular interest to the case of quadratic irrationalities and use the technique described to prove a criterion for the continued fraction of a quadratic surd to have a symmetric period.
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@article{arxiv.1605.09428,
title = {Palindromes and periodic continued fractions},
author = {Oleg N. German and Ibragim A. Tlyustangelov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.09428},
year = {2016}
}