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On a theorem of Davenport concerning continued fractions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

Michel Mendes France
Michel Mendes France
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Mathématiques, et d'Informatique dépendant de, l'Université de Bordeaux I, 351, cours de la Libération, 33405 Talence.
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Extract

Several years ago, Davenport [2] noticed that for any real irrational number ξ and for any prime number p, one at least of the numbers

has infinitely many partial quotients larger than p – 2 in its continued fraction expansion.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mathematika , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , December 1976 , pp. 136 - 141
Copyright
Copyright © University College London 1976

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