the continued fraction of (1+√5)/2 is [1;1,1,1,1,1,1,...] it goes on forever.<p>there are more advanced formulas in this article of Curtis McMullen
<a href="http://www.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/papers/home/text/papers/cf/cf.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/papers/home/text/papers/cf/...</a>