Folklore conjecture on algebraic badly approximable numbers

An irrational real number xx is badly approximable if its continued-fraction partial quotients are bounded; write Bad\mathbf{Bad} for the set of badly approximable numbers. An algebraic irrational is an irrational algebraic number.

Folklore conjecture. The only algebraic irrationals that belong to Bad\mathbf{Bad} are the quadratic irrationals.

By the continued-fraction characterization, this predicts that every algebraic irrational of degree at least three has unbounded partial quotients. The problem remains open.

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Victor Beresnevich, Felipe Ramírez and Sanju Velani, “Metric Diophantine Approximation: aspects of recent work”, arXiv:1601.01948 (2016).

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