Problem 66 - Find the sum of digits in the numerator of the 100th convergent of the continued fraction for e.

링크

The square root of 2 can be written as an infinite continued fraction.

2 = 1 +	1
	2 +	1
		2 +	1
			2 +	1
				2 + ...

The infinite continued fraction can be written, 2 = [1;(2)], (2) indicates that 2 repeats ad infinitum. In a similar way, 23 = [4;(1,3,1,8)].

It turns out that the sequence of partial values of continued fractions for square roots provide the best rational approximations. Let us consider the convergents for 2.

1 +	1	= 3/2
	2

1 +	1		= 7/5
	2 +	1
		2

1 +	1			= 17/12
	2 +	1
		2 +	1
			2

1 +	1				= 41/29
	2 +	1
		2 +	1
			2 +	1
				2

Hence the sequence of the first ten convergents for 2 are:

1, 3/2, 7/5, 17/12, 41/29, 99/70, 239/169, 577/408, 1393/985, 3363/2378, ...

What is most surprising is that the important mathematical constant,
e = [2; 1,2,1, 1,4,1, 1,6,1 , ... , 1,2k,1, ...].

The first ten terms in the sequence of convergents for e are:

2, 3, 8/3, 11/4, 19/7, 87/32, 106/39, 193/71, 1264/465, 1457/536, ...

The sum of digits in the numerator of the 10^th convergent is 1+4+5+7=17.

Find the sum of digits in the numerator of the 100^th convergent of the continued fraction for e.

python

l = [2] + [1]*99 l[2::3] = [2*x for x in range(1, 34)] l = l[::-1] den, num = 1, l[0] for x in l[1:]: den, num = num, den + num*x print sum(int(x) for x in str(num))