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How to prove Ramanujan's $q$-continued fractions

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Abstract

By using Euler's approach of using Euclid's algorithm to expand a power series into a continued fraction, we show how to derive Ramanujan's qq-continued fractions in a systematic manner.

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@article{arxiv.1205.5455,
  title  = {How to prove Ramanujan's $q$-continued fractions},
  author = {Gaurav Bhatnagar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.5455},
  year   = {2015}
}

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19 Pages. Please give comments and suggestions. Updated explanation of convergence of continued fractions. Fixed some errors in convergence arguments of some continued fractions in ver 2