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continued fractions

continued fractions is the plural 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...

Questions about continued fractions

What is continued fractions the plural of?
Continued fractions is the plural of continued fraction.

Words near continued fractions in the dictionary

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

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