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Continued fractions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Robert MacMillan
Robert MacMillan*
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Consider the vulgar fraction 257/47. We can convert it to an integer plus proper fraction. If we now invert the fractional part and repeat the process on it, we get

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 84 , Issue 499 , March 2000 , pp. 30 - 35
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 2000

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