Representations found by the greedy algorithm
Kimberling, Clark
ck6 at evansville.edu
Tue Dec 19 15:03:16 CET 2006
Suppose x=(1+sqrt(5))/2. The greedy algorithm finds that every positive
integer N has a representation
N = c0/x + c1/x^2 + c2/x^3 + ...
Can someone prove that c1, c2, c3, ... are all 0 except for finitely
many 1's?
Examples:
4 = 6/x + 1/x^3 + 1/x^6
5 = 8/x + 1/x^6
6 = 9/x + 1/x^2 + 1/x^6
22 = 35/x + 1/x^3 + 1/x^5 + 1/x^7 + 1/x^10.
Clark Kimberling
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