Notations For Continued Fractions
The integers a0, a1 etc., are called the quotients of the continued fraction. One can abbreviate the continued fraction
as
- ,
or in the notation of Pringsheim as
- ,
or in another related notation as
Sometimes angle brackets are used, like this:
The semicolon in the square and angle bracket notations is sometimes replaced by a comma.
One may also define infinite simple continued fractions as limits:
This limit exists for any choice of a0 and positive integers a1, a2, ... .
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