Conjecture on period lengths of square roots of primes
Conjecture on period lengths of square roots of primes
Let denote the -th prime, let be the period length of the continued fraction expansion of , and define
Period-length distribution conjecture. For each , the limits
exist and both are equal to . This conjecture is motivated by numerical data for primes up to the stated computational range; the source provides no proof or resolution.
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Primary source
Piotr Miska and Maciej Ulas, “On consecutive 1's in continued fractions expansions of square roots of prime numbers”, arXiv:1904.03404 (2019).
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