Abstract
We prove that the numerators and denominators of the convergents to a real irrational number θ \theta satisfy a linear recurrence with constant coefficients if and only if θ \theta is a quadratic irrational. The proof uses the Hadamard Quotient Theorem of A. van der Poorten.
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