A periodic continued fraction is a continued fraction (generally a regular continued fraction) whose terms eventually repeat from some point onwards. The minimal number of repeating terms is called the period of the continued fraction. All nontrivial periodic continued fractions represent irrational numbers. In general, an infinite simple fraction (periodic or otherwise) represents a unique irrational number, and each irrational number has a unique infinite continued fraction.

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