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  1. Newsgroups: sci.math
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!regeorge
  3. From: regeorge@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert E George)
  4. Subject: Re: Continued Fractions
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug20.191223.25658@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
  6. Keywords: Help, Continued Fractions
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  9. Organization: The Ohio State University
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  12. Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 19:12:23 GMT
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  15. There is a role played by continued fractions in approximation/numerical
  16. methods, see for instance Numerical Analysis, by Ward Cheney and David
  17. Kincaid (Brooks/Cole //1991), pp. 403ff. Other references are given
  18. therein.
  19.  
  20. Robert George
  21. (speaking only for myself)
  22.