curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/project-euler-problems-1-to-100/5900f3a51000cf542c50feb8.md
It is possible to show that the square root of two can be expressed as an infinite continued fraction.
<div style='text-align: center;'>$\sqrt 2 =1+ \frac 1 {2+ \frac 1 {2 +\frac 1 {2+ \dots}}}$</div>By expanding this for the first four iterations, we get:
$1 + \frac 1 2 = \frac 32 = 1.5$
$1 + \frac 1 {2 + \frac 1 2} = \frac 7 5 = 1.4$
$1 + \frac 1 {2 + \frac 1 {2+\frac 1 2}} = \frac {17}{12} = 1.41666 \dots$
$1 + \frac 1 {2 + \frac 1 {2+\frac 1 {2+\frac 1 2}}} = \frac {41}{29} = 1.41379 \dots$
The next three expansions are $\frac {99}{70}$, $\frac {239}{169}$, and $\frac {577}{408}$, but the eighth expansion, $\frac {1393}{985}$, is the first example where the number of digits in the numerator exceeds the number of digits in the denominator.
In the first n expansions, how many fractions contain a numerator with more digits than denominator?
squareRootConvergents(10) should return a number.
assert(typeof squareRootConvergents(10) === 'number');
squareRootConvergents(10) should return 1.
assert.strictEqual(squareRootConvergents(10), 1);
squareRootConvergents(100) should return 15.
assert.strictEqual(squareRootConvergents(100), 15);
squareRootConvergents(1000) should return 153.
assert.strictEqual(squareRootConvergents(1000), 153);
function squareRootConvergents(n) {
return true;
}
squareRootConvergents(1000);
function squareRootConvergents(n) {
function countDigits(number) {
let counter = 0;
while (number > 0) {
counter++;
number = number / 10n;
}
return counter;
}
// Use BigInt as integer won't handle all cases
let numerator = 3n;
let denominator = 2n;
let moreDigitsInNumerator = 0;
for (let i = 2; i <= n; i++) {
[numerator, denominator] = [
numerator + 2n * denominator,
denominator + numerator
];
if (countDigits(numerator) > countDigits(denominator)) {
moreDigitsInNumerator++;
}
}
return moreDigitsInNumerator;
}