Problem 55330. Convert Periodic Continued Fraction to Fractional Radical Representation

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height: 18px;"></span><span style="block-size: auto; display: inline; margin-block-end: 0px; margin-block-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-inline-end: 0px; margin-inline-start: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; perspective-origin: 0px 0px; transform-origin: 0px 0px; "><span style="">, and d not a perfect square. Given the cointued fraction sequence, both the beginning sequence and cyclic part of the sequence [front, cyclic], output the unique p, q, and d (in reduced form). p and q can both be negative.</span></span></div></div></div>

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Tim on 1 Sep 2022

Tests 8 and 9 have Z(1) three times instead of, presumably, Z(1), Z(2), and Z(3) (not that it's going to help me any).

David Hill on 1 Sep 2022

Thanks, that was not my intent. I corrected the test suite.

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