Paper #171
- Title:
- Approximation of quadratic irrationals and their pierce expansions
- Authors:
- Jaume Paradís, Lluís Bibiloni and Pelegrí Viader
- Date:
- June 1996
- Abstract:
- In this article two aims are pursued: on the one hand, to present a rapidly converging algorithm for the approximation of square roots; on the other hand and based on the previous algorithm, to find the Pierce expansions of a certain class of quadratic irrationals as an alternative way to the method presented in 1984 by J.O. Shallit; we extend the method to find also the Pierce expansions of quadratic irrationals of the form $2 (p-1) (p - \sqrt{p^2 - 1})$ which are not covered in Shallit's work.
- Keywords:
- Quadratic irrationals, Pierce series
- JEL codes:
- C00
- Area of Research:
- Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods
- Published in:
- The Fibonacci Quarterly, 36, 2, (1998), pp. 146-153
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