This paper is closely related to an earlier paper of the author and W. Narkiewicz (cf. [7]) and to some papers concerning ratio sets of positive integers (cf. [4], [5], [12], [13], [14]). The paper contains some new results completing results of the mentioned papers. Among other things a characterization of the Steinhaus property of sets of positive integers is given here by using the concept of ratio sets of positive integers.

$s\left(n\right)$ désigne la somme des chiffres de l’entier $n$ en base $q$ et ${\sigma }_{\alpha }\left(n\right)$ la somme des chiffres de $n$ associée au développement de $\alpha$ en fraction continue. Dans un article paru aux Annales de l’Institut Fourier (31 (1981), 1–15), Coquet, Rhin et Toffin montrent que, lorsque $x$ ou $y$ est irrationnel, la suite $xs+y{\sigma }_{\alpha }$ est équirépartie modulo 1. On précise ici que l’équirépartition est uniforme.

By iterating the Bolyai-Rényi transformation $T\left(x\right)={(x+1)}^2(mod1)$, almost every real number $x\in [0,1)$ can be expanded as a continued radical expression $$x=-1+\sqrt{x_1+\sqrt{x_2+\cdots +\sqrt{x_n+\cdots }}}$$ with digits $x_n\in \{0,1,2\}$ for all $n\in \mathbb{N}$. For any real number $x\in [0,1)$ and digit $i\in \{0,1,2\}$, let $r_n(x,i)$ be the maximal length of consecutive $i$’s in the first $n$ digits of the Bolyai-Rényi expansion of $x$. We study the asymptotic behavior of the run-length function $r_n(x,i)$. We prove that for any digit $i\in \{0,1,2\}$, the Lebesgue measure of the set $$D\left(i\right)=\left\{x\in [0,1):\underset{n\to \infty }{lim}\frac{r_n(x,i)}{logn}=\frac{1}{log{\theta }_i}\right\}$$ is $1$, where ${\theta }_i=1+\sqrt{4i+1}$. We also obtain that the level set $$E_{\alpha }\left(i\right)=\left\{x\in [0,1):\underset{n\to \infty }{lim}\frac{r_n(x,i)}{logn}=\alpha \right\}$$ is of full Hausdorff dimension...