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Trott Constants

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A Trott constant is a real number whose decimal digits are equal to the terms of its continued fraction.

The first Trott constant T_1=0.1084101512231113...=[0,1,0,8,4,1,0,1,5,...] (OEIS A039662) was discovered by M. Trott in 1999. While it is theoretically possible to extend this sequence arbitrarily far, it is impractical to do so since agreement after 639 terms is so close that the number of consecutive term pairs of "90" that would immediately follow the 639th term would exceed 5×10^(301) (Schoenfield 2010).

The second Trott constant is the number T_2=0.273944195739271617171... (OEIS A091694; Trott 2004, p. 70) which is equal to its non-simple continued fraction

T_2=2/(7+3/(9+4/(4+...))).

The third Trott constant is the number T_3=0.48267728193... (OEIS A113307; M. Trott, pers. comm., Oct. 24, 2005) which is equal to its non-simple continued fraction

T_3=0+4/(8+2/(6+7/(7+...))).

Very little seems to be known about the existence and uniqueness of such numbers.

See also

Continued Fraction

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References

Finch, S. R. Mathematical Constants. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, p. 443, 2003.Schoenfield, J. "Extending (Arbitrarily Far) the Modified Trott Constant of A114376." Apr. 18, 2010. https://oeis.org/A114376/a114376.txt.Sloane, N. J. A. Sequences A039662, A091694, and A113307 in "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences."Trott, M. The Mathematica GuideBook for Programming. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2004. http://www.mathematicaguidebooks.org/.Trott, M. "Finding Trott Constants." Mathematica J. 10, 303-322, 2006.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Trott Constants." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/TrottConstants.html

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