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In this note it is proved that for p-adic continued fractions a result analogous to Galois theorem for ordinary continued fractions holds. Moreover some results concerning the p- adic continued fraction expansions of the square roots of the integers are obtained.
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Bedocchi, E. Nota sulle frazioni continuep-adiche. Annali di Matematica pura ed applicata 152, 197–207 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01766149
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