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#8501 2013-02-25 23:17:43
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Re: Linear Interpolation FP1 Formula
repeat step 2.
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#8502 2013-02-25 23:19:07
#8503 2013-02-25 23:26:04
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Re: Linear Interpolation FP1 Formula
Hi;
I do not know of a hand method. I think I remember one though but do not remember where I saw it.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the slightest notion what it means.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
#8504 2013-02-25 23:26:51
#8505 2013-02-25 23:27:10
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Also, why does this method solve Pell equations?
#8506 2013-02-25 23:29:29
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For that we would have to ask Mr. Fermat and Mr. Legendre.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the slightest notion what it means.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
#8507 2013-02-25 23:31:09
#8508 2013-02-25 23:37:56
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How taking the cf and convergents solves a Fermat-Pell equation.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the slightest notion what it means.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
#8509 2013-02-25 23:38:28
#8510 2013-02-25 23:46:03
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I do not think so. This is all covered in number theory books that do a little computation.
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#8511 2013-02-26 03:42:42
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Re: Linear Interpolation FP1 Formula
I will see if I can find out about it somewhere, then...
Nothing from adriana yet, 16:41. Usually on Mondays she contacts me while she is at school.
#8512 2013-02-26 03:57:38
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The method I showed is very important because it finds a simple continued fraction. This simple continued fraction's convergents are the best rational approximations of the constant. Other cf's do not have that property.
Look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continued_fraction
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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the slightest notion what it means.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
#8513 2013-02-26 04:12:48
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Re: Linear Interpolation FP1 Formula
I have skimmed that page for days but I've still not been able to find a method for finding a simple continued fraction that differs from yours (I believe they use your method to find the continued fraction for pi). However, I did notice that on the Wiki page for sqrt(3), they said this:
The square root of 3 can be expressed by generalised continued fractions such as [2; -4, -4, -4, ...] which is identical to [1; 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, ...] evaluated at every second term.
The trouble is, I don't understand what they mean by that... this seems to be the important bit because they can get the simple CF from a generalised one. Do you know what they mean by 'evaluated at every second term'?
#8514 2013-02-26 04:19:10
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I think that is a misprint.
Generalized ones a generated using other methods some of them tricky, than the floor method.
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90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
#8515 2013-02-26 04:21:07
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But, are the two continued fractions I mentioned identical?
They do both converge to root 3, but I am unsure how I show that they're actually the same fraction...
#8516 2013-02-26 04:26:03
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I think that is a misprint. The convergents of the two are different.
There is no 30 / 17 in the second group of convergents.
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Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the slightest notion what it means.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
#8517 2013-02-26 04:29:16
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Hmm... so, do you remember the other way to get the simple continued fraction? Every page I go to seems to use your method but it is difficult to do by hand...
#8518 2013-02-26 04:31:51
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First things first.
does not converge to the √3
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#8519 2013-02-26 04:35:49
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Yes it does... I evaluated it after a few terms and I got root 3 with an error of only 0.0000274 %.
#8520 2013-02-26 04:39:33
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I am getting convergence to something close to 1.76393202250021
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#8521 2013-02-26 04:44:59
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Re: Linear Interpolation FP1 Formula
And, you are using the CF
?
I am getting root 3...
#8522 2013-02-26 04:53:17
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Yes that cf is correct but is that
{2,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4...}?
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Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the slightest notion what it means.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
#8523 2013-02-26 04:54:38
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Re: Linear Interpolation FP1 Formula
Yes, they are just distributing the negative through the denominator, I think.
#8524 2013-02-26 04:58:51
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I do not think that is correct.
{2,-4,-4,-4,-4,-4...} is
which is not converging to the √3
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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Probability is the most important concept in modern science, especially as nobody has the slightest notion what it means.
90% of mathematicians do not understand 90% of currently published mathematics.
#8525 2013-02-26 05:05:44
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Re: Linear Interpolation FP1 Formula
Hmm, I agree, that one does not converge...