Such a deep number

Since there are so many mathematical constants that I love, I decided to make one of my own. Since I love primes and my favorite prime number is 19, I chose to go with it for this problem. My constant was the square root of 19 which comes out to be (obviously irrational )

19 = 4.35889894354067 . \sqrt{19} = 4.35889894354067\ldots.

Obviously, I am not a mathematician, I am crazy and I like to play with numbers, so I decided to go with the following approximation for the square root of 19:

19 4.3588989. \sqrt{19} \approx 4.3588989.

which, to be clear is a rational number .

I then decided to play a little bit more and express this rational number in the form of its continued fraction ,

4.3588989 = 4 + 1 a + 1 b + 1 c + 1 d + 1 e + 1 f + 1 g + 1 h + 1 i + 1 j + 1 k + 1 l + 1 m + 1 n + 1 o + 1 p + 1 q 4.3588989 = 4+\cfrac{1}{a+\cfrac{1}{b+\cfrac{1}{c+\cfrac{1}{d+\cfrac{1}{e+\cfrac{1}{f+\cfrac{1}{g+\cfrac{1}{h+\cfrac{1}{i+\cfrac{1}{j+\cfrac{1}{k+\cfrac{1}{l+\cfrac{1}{m+\cfrac{1}{n+\cfrac{1}{o+\cfrac{1}{p+\cfrac{1}{q}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

I have hidden all the numbers for this problem by the symbols a , b , c , , p , q a,b,c,\ldots,p,q , all of which are positive integers.

Find the sum of all these symbols, a + b + c + d + + o + p + q a+b+c+d+\cdots+o+p+q .


The answer is 45.

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