Problem 46003. Compute Khinchin's constant

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Khinchin's constant = 2.684542001... (also written "Khintchine's constant") has the amazing property that it is the limiting value of the geometric mean of the partial quotients from a continued fraction expansion of almost all numbers. In other words, if a number x is expanded as

then as

More information is available at Wikipedia, Wolfram MathWorld, the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, and Numberphile.

Compute Khinchin's constant. The test suite will check for a difference of .

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