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Theon's Ladder for Any Root
Thomas J. Osler; Marcus Wright; Michael Orchard
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology Vol. 36, No. 4 (2005) pp. 389–398
Theon's ladder is an ancient algorithm for calculating rational approximations for the square root of 2. It features two columns of integers (called a ladder), in which the ratio of the two numbers in each row is an approximation to the square root...