Carnival of Mathematics 242
Is the Carnival of Mathematics back in town already? It feels like it’s hardly been six months since the last one.
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Further notes on continued fractions
Fresh from finding the continued fraction of $\sqrt {19}$, I wondered “how hard can it be to find something like $\sqrt [3]{2}$?”.
Finding a continued fraction
This is as much notes for me as it is something useful for you. But maybe it will be useful for you? Who knows?
Dividing by 19
whoosh
Carnival of Mathematics #237
Welcome to Carnival of Mathematics #237! It’s traditional to start the post with a few interesting facts about the number… only 237 is one of the dullest numbers in existence. It’s not prime. It has no entry in David Wells’s Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers. It’s not even the sum of two squares, and I honestly think nobody would miss it if it were removed from the natural…