An infinite continued fraction of $x^n$

An infinite continued fraction of

$x^n$

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hbghlyj
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I coded in SageMath to compute the 50^th convergent of $f(x)$ and plot for integers $x=1,\dots,50$ :

def f(x, n_terms):
    result = []
    for i in range(n_terms):
        result.extend([x**i, x**i])
    return continued_fraction([0] + result).n()

list_plot(([f(x,50) for x in range(1,50)]), title='$f(x)=\\dfrac{x}{x+\\dfrac{x^2}{x^2+\\dfrac{x^3}{x^3+\\ddots}}}$')

My question is to make a continuous plot of $f(x)$ . I have difficulty in that continued_fraction only support integer values of $x$ .

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Your function f cannot be evaluated at non-integer values x since continued_fraction() expects a list with integer elements. Hence, f (as defined) is not a continuous function and cannot be plotted as such. Do you mean a continuous interpolation of f from its values at integer points or something else?

Max Alekseyev ( 1 year ago )

Yes, the built-in function continued_fraction() expects a list of integers, but I want to compute $f(x)=\cfrac{x}{x+\cfrac{x^2}{x^2+\cfrac{x^3}{x^3+\cdots}}}$ $f$ is a continuous function for real number $x>1$ . Does SageMath have built-in function to compute continued fractions of real numbers?

hbghlyj ( 1 year ago )

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The code throws error:

verbose 0 (3935: plot.py, generate_plot_points) WARNING: When plotting, failed to evaluate function at 198 points.
verbose 0 (3935: plot.py, generate_plot_points) Last error message: 'Unable to compute f(50.0)'

hbghlyj ( 1 year ago )

It's still plotting, isn't it? This is what I see in Sagecell: https://sagecell.sagemath.org/?q=vbtqxm The issue is in computing the function for large arguments as I understand.

Max Alekseyev ( 1 year ago )

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