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by thechao 948 days ago
Larger integers in continued fractions mean you get 'more information' out of the limb. That means not only is Phi "1s all the way down" it is the continued fraction that converges the slowest. If you've ever used the iterated matrix product (which is a specific edge-case of the algorithm to convert continued fractions to decimals), you'll know how slow it is!