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Certain elliptic divisibility sequences are shown to contain only finitely many prime power terms. In certain circumstances, the methods prove that only finitely many terms have length below a given bound.

Despite their classical nature, continued fractions are a neverending research area, with a body of results accessible enough to suit a wide audience, from researchers to students and even amateur enthusiasts. Neverending Fractions brings these results together, offering fresh perspectives on a mature subject.Beginning with a standard introduction to continued fractions, the book covers a diverse range of topics, including elementary and metric properties, quadratic irrationals and more exotic topics such as folded continued fractions and Somos sequences. Along the way, the authors reveal some amazing applications of the theory to seemingly unrelated problems in number theory. Previously scattered throughout the literature, these applications are brought together in this volume for the first time.A wide variety of exercises guide readers through the material, and this will be especially helpful to readers using the book for self-study; the authors also provide many pointers to the literature.

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Cambridge University Press15 + 1 1 .Obviously, the notation takes too much space. We also note that truncations of the neverending fraction (2.1) seem to provide very good rational approximations. (We have coined the term neverending fraction as a synonym for an infinite continued fraction, which is what equations like (2.1) represent. We will of course need to consider convergence issues.) 23