A geometrical approach to measure irrationality
Abstract
We present a geometric way of describing the irrationality of a number using the area of a circular sector A(r). We establish a connection between this and the continued fraction expansion of the number, and prove bounds for A(r) as r∞ by describing the asymptotic behavior of the ratios of the denominators of the convergents.
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