Project Euler/64

Problem Statement

More investigation of continued fractions and the continued fraction representation of square roots.

Link: https://projecteuler.net/problem=64

Blog post: Computing square roots using continued fractions: https://charlesreid1.com:3000/cs/euler/src/master/scratch/Round2_050-070/063/Problem063.java

Solution Technique

The blog post linked above contains some of the code used to solve this problem, but it basically boils down to implementing the recurrence relation formula that we already saw in Project Euler/57, with various initial conditions.

Code

Link: https://charlesreid1.com:3000/cs/euler/src/master/scratch/Round2_050-070/064