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id	title	challengeType	forumTopicId	dashedName
5900f3ac1000cf542c50febf	Problem 64: Odd period square roots	5	302176	problem-64-odd-period-square-roots

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All square roots are periodic when written as continued fractions and can be written in the form:

\\displaystyle \\quad \\quad \\sqrt{N}=a_0+\\frac 1 {a_1+\\frac 1 {a_2+ \\frac 1 {a3+ \\dots}}}

For example, let us consider \\sqrt{23}::

\\quad \\quad \\sqrt{23}=4+\\sqrt{23}-4=4+\\frac 1 {\\frac 1 {\\sqrt{23}-4}}=4+\\frac 1 {1+\\frac{\\sqrt{23}-3}7}

If we continue we would get the following expansion:

\\displaystyle \\quad \\quad \\sqrt{23}=4+\\frac 1 {1+\\frac 1 {3+ \\frac 1 {1+\\frac 1 {8+ \\dots}}}}

The process can be summarized as follows:

\\quad \\quad a_0=4, \\frac 1 {\\sqrt{23}-4}=\\frac {\\sqrt{23}+4} 7=1+\\frac {\\sqrt{23}-3} 7

\\quad \\quad a_1=1, \\frac 7 {\\sqrt{23}-3}=\\frac {7(\\sqrt{23}+3)} {14}=3+\\frac {\\sqrt{23}-3} 2

\\quad \\quad a_2=3, \\frac 2 {\\sqrt{23}-3}=\\frac {2(\\sqrt{23}+3)} {14}=1+\\frac {\\sqrt{23}-4} 7

\\quad \\quad a_3=1, \\frac 7 {\\sqrt{23}-4}=\\frac {7(\\sqrt{23}+4)} 7=8+\\sqrt{23}-4

\\quad \\quad a_4=8, \\frac 1 {\\sqrt{23}-4}=\\frac {\\sqrt{23}+4} 7=1+\\frac {\\sqrt{23}-3} 7

\\quad \\quad a_5=1, \\frac 7 {\\sqrt{23}-3}=\\frac {7 (\\sqrt{23}+3)} {14}=3+\\frac {\\sqrt{23}-3} 2

\\quad \\quad a_6=3, \\frac 2 {\\sqrt{23}-3}=\\frac {2(\\sqrt{23}+3)} {14}=1+\\frac {\\sqrt{23}-4} 7

\\quad \\quad a_7=1, \\frac 7 {\\sqrt{23}-4}=\\frac {7(\\sqrt{23}+4)} {7}=8+\\sqrt{23}-4

It can be seen that the sequence is repeating. For conciseness, we use the notation \\sqrt{23}=\[4;(1,3,1,8)], to indicate that the block (1,3,1,8) repeats indefinitely.

The first ten continued fraction representations of (irrational) square roots are:

\\quad \\quad \\sqrt{2}=\[1;(2)], period = 1

\\quad \\quad \\sqrt{3}=\[1;(1,2)], period = 2

\\quad \\quad \\sqrt{5}=\[2;(4)], period = 1

\\quad \\quad \\sqrt{6}=\[2;(2,4)], period = 2

\\quad \\quad \\sqrt{7}=\[2;(1,1,1,4)], period = 4

\\quad \\quad \\sqrt{8}=\[2;(1,4)], period = 2

\\quad \\quad \\sqrt{10}=\[3;(6)], period = 1

\\quad \\quad \\sqrt{11}=\[3;(3,6)], period = 2

\\quad \\quad \\sqrt{12}=\[3;(2,6)], period = 2

\\quad \\quad \\sqrt{13}=\[3;(1,1,1,1,6)], period = 5

Exactly four continued fractions, for N \\le 13, have an odd period.

How many continued fractions for N \\le 10\\,000 have an odd period?

--hints--

oddPeriodSqrts() should return a number.

assert(typeof oddPeriodSqrts() === 'number');

oddPeriodSqrts() should return 1322.

assert.strictEqual(oddPeriodSqrts(), 1322);

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--seed-contents--

function oddPeriodSqrts() {

  return true;
}

oddPeriodSqrts();

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