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<h2>Odd period square roots</h2><div class="info" style="cursor:help;width:200px;margin-bottom:10px;"><h3>Problem 64</h3><span style="width:300px;color:#666;">Published on Friday, 27th February 2004, 06:00 pm; Solved by 9824</span></div>
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<p>All square roots are periodic when written as continued fractions and can be written in the form:</p>
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<td><img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' /><var>N</var> = <var>a</var><sub>0</sub> +</td>
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<p>For example, let us consider <img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23:</p>
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<td><img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23 = 4 + <img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23 — 4 = 4 + </td>
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<td><div style="text-align:center;">1<br /><span style="border-top:1px solid #000;"><img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23—4</span></div></td>
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<td><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="border-bottom:1px solid #000;"><img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23 – 3</span><br />7</div></td>
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<p>If we continue we would get the following expansion:</p>
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<td><img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23 = 4 +</td>
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<p>The process can be summarised as follows:</p>
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<td><div style="text-align:center;">1<br /><span style="border-top:1px solid #000;"><img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23—4</span></div></td>
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<td><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="border-bottom:1px solid #000;"><img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23+4</span><br />7</div></td>
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<td><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="border-bottom:1px solid #000;"><img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23—3</span><br />7</div></td>
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<td><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="border-bottom:1px solid #000;">7(<img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23+3)</span><br />14</div></td>
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<td><div style="text-align:center;">2<br /><span style="border-top:1px solid #000;"><img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23—3</span></div></td>
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<td><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="border-bottom:1px solid #000;">2(<img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23+3)</span><br />14</div></td>
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<td><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="border-bottom:1px solid #000;"><img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23—4</span><br />7</div></td>
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<td><div style="text-align:center;">7<br /><span style="border-top:1px solid #000;"><img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23—4</span></div></td>
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<td><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="border-bottom:1px solid #000;">7(<img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23+4)</span><br />7</div></td>
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<td><div style="text-align:center;">1<br /><span style="border-top:1px solid #000;"><img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23—4</span></div></td>
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<td><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="border-bottom:1px solid #000;"><img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23—3</span><br />7</div></td>
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<td><div style="text-align:center;">7<br /><span style="border-top:1px solid #000;"><img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23—3</span></div></td>
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<td><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="border-bottom:1px solid #000;">7(<img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23+3)</span><br />14</div></td>
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<td><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="border-bottom:1px solid #000;">2(<img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23+3)</span><br />14</div></td>
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<td><div style="text-align:center;">7<br /><span style="border-top:1px solid #000;"><img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23—4</span></div></td>
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<td><div style="text-align:center;"><span style="border-bottom:1px solid #000;">7(<img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23+4)</span><br />7</div></td>
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<p>It can be seen that the sequence is repeating. For conciseness, we use the notation <img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />23 = [4;(1,3,1,8)], to indicate that the block (1,3,1,8) repeats indefinitely.</p>
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<p>The first ten continued fraction representations of (irrational) square roots are:</p>
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<p style="margin-left:20px;"><img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />2=[1;(2)], period=1<br />
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<img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />3=[1;(1,2)], period=2<br />
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<img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />5=[2;(4)], period=1<br />
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<img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />6=[2;(2,4)], period=2<br />
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<img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />7=[2;(1,1,1,4)], period=4<br />
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<img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />8=[2;(1,4)], period=2<br />
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<img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />10=[3;(6)], period=1<br />
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<img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />11=[3;(3,6)], period=2<br />
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<img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />12= [3;(2,6)], period=2<br />
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<img src='images/symbol_radic.gif' width='14' height='16' alt='√' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' />13=[3;(1,1,1,1,6)], period=5</p>
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<p>Exactly four continued fractions, for <var>N</var> <img src='images/symbol_le.gif' width='10' height='12' alt='≤' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' /> 13, have an odd period.</p>
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<p>How many continued fractions for <var>N</var> <img src='images/symbol_le.gif' width='10' height='12' alt='≤' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' /> 10000 have an odd period?</p>
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