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This Demonstration shows continued fraction representations for several numbers. Square roots eventually yield repetitive sequences in this representation, but cube roots and higher powers yield seemingly random sequences.

Contributed by: Stephen Wolfram (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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