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continued-fraction

continued-fraction is the alternative form of continued fraction.

Meaning of continued fraction

Noun

continued fraction (plural continued fractions)

  1. A compound numerical expression consisting of an integer plus a fraction whose numerator is a positive integer and whose denominator is a continued fraction (an integer plus a fraction), and so on, with finite or infinite recursion.
    • Several results focus on the famous Rogers–Ramanujan continued fraction [47], [48, pp. 214-215], the only continued fraction appearing in Ramanujan's published papers.1992, G. E. Andrews, B. C. Berndt, L. Jacobsen, R. L. Lamphere, “The Continued Fractions Found in the Unorganized Portions of Ramanujan's Notebooks”, in Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society...

Forms of continued-fraction

pluralcontinued-fractions

Questions about continued-fraction

What is continued-fraction the alternative form of?
Continued-fraction is the alternative form of continued fraction.

Words near continued-fraction in the dictionary

  1. continued fraction
  2. continued fractions
  3. continued on one's merry way
  4. continued on page 94
  5. continued page 94
  6. continued-fraction
  7. continued-fractions
  8. continuedly
  9. continuedness
  10. continuedst
  11. continuer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: continued-fraction (page history and authors); continued fraction (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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