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Fractional parts of powers of rationals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

F. Beukers
Affiliation:
University of Leiden

Extract

In 1975 A. Baker and J. Coates published a paper bearing the same title (2). Since the introduction to their paper can be used in this paper very appropriately, I shall quote large parts of it here.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1981

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