Re: Special Continued Fractions

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From: Tom Crispin
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 00:00

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Hi Paul,

Try the following:

http://www.mathsoft.com/asolve/constant/pi/frc.html

http://www.mathsoft.com/asolve/constant/e/cntfrc.html



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Best wishes,     Tom.
Veni Vidi Bibi
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Paul Bruckman wrote in message <6rhlms$6kk$1@news-1.news.gte.net>...
>Can anyone recommend a web site where there is some discussion in depth
>of "special"
>continued fractions?  By this term, I refer to continued fractions
>representing numbers OTHER than quadratic surds (and therefore
>non-periodic), yet displaying some type of predictable pattern.  The
>simplest example that comes to mind is the simple continued
>fraction 1+1/(2+1/(3+1/(4+..., which is a ratio of modified Bessel
>functions.  The
>continued fractions I am interested in need not be simple ones ; for
>example, Ramanujan's continued fraction would qualify.  I am very
>interested in studying these types of continued fractions and would like
>to know how to derive such expressions and to see a collection of such
>results.  Thank you in advance.  Paul Bruckman

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From: "Tom Crispin" <Tom_Crispin@msn.com>
Subject: Re: Special Continued Fractions
Date: 1998/08/21
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