# we-solve research prompt: Math-2100, Show that there exists a B so that, for every n > 0, there exists a k relatively prime to n whose continued fraction has

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## Problem statement (quoted material)
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% UnsolvedMath ID 3100053; source catalogue code AMR-030-0053
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\section*{Show that there exists a B so that, for every n > 0, there exists a k relatively prime to n whose continued fraction has}\label{3100053}
{\small UnsolvedMath ID 3100053 · AMR-030-0053 · Number Theory · AMR Open Problem Lists}
\subsection{Definitions and mathematical statement}
For an integer $n\ge2$, choose $1\le k<n$ with $\gcd(k,n)=1$
and write its regular continued fraction in the canonical form
\[
       \frac{k}{n}=[0;a_1,\ldots,a_r],
       \qquad a_i\in\mathbb Z_{>0},\quad a_r\ge2.
\]
Here the notation means the finite nested fraction
$1/(a_1+1/(a_2+\cdots+1/a_r))$. Say that its partial quotients
are bounded in prefix average by $B$ if
\[
                    \sum_{i=1}^{j}a_i\le Bj
                         \qquad(1\le j\le r).
\]
Does an absolute constant $B$ exist such that every denominator
$n\ge2$ admits a coprime numerator satisfying all these inequalities?
In particular, is $B=3$ sufficient?

The numerator may depend on $n$, but the constant may not. The
condition concerns every initial segment, not only the average
over the entire continued fraction; large early quotients cannot
be compensated by later small ones. It is also weaker than
requiring each quotient separately to be at most $B$.
The source's reference to a continued fraction of a multiplier
$k$ is interpreted as the rational number $k/n$. The trivial
denominator $n=1$ is omitted, and the terminal-quotient convention
removes the two-expansion ambiguity for rational numbers.
\subsection{Short English statement}
Does every denominator admit a coprime numerator whose continued-fraction partial quotients have a uniformly bounded average on every prefix, perhaps with bound3?
\subsection{Sources}
\begin{itemize}
\item[S1] ULAM.AI and the UnsolvedMath Contributors, supplied problems.json, record 3100053 (AMR-030-0053), AMR Open Problem Lists. Catalogue identity and source transcription; CC BY 4.0.
\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/ulamai/UnsolvedMath}.
\item[S2] Cooper - Combinatorial Problems I Like (2020 snapshot), Combinatorial Number Theory, source-order bullet 53. Original source indexed by AMR-030-0053.
\url{https://people.math.sc.edu/cooper/combprob.html}.
\end{itemize}
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## Earlier contributions (quoted titles and claims; read them before repeating work)
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Problem: TOP-3100053
Title:
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