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Miklos Schweitzer 1950_2

Source: second part of 1950

October 2, 2008
continued fractionnumber theory proposednumber theory

Problem Statement

Show that there exists a positive constant c c with the following property: To every positive irrational α \alpha, there can be found infinitely many fractions pq \frac{p}{q} with (p,q)\equal{}1 satisfying \left|\alpha\minus{}\frac{p}{q}\right|\le \frac{c}{q^2}