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On Legendre criterium for convergents

History and Overview 2021-02-02 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

This is a brief historical note about famous Legendre's criterium for convergent of continued fraction expansion. The paper is written in Russian.

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@article{arxiv.2002.07587,
  title  = {On Legendre criterium for convergents},
  author = {N. G. Moshchevitin and A. Yu. Yashnikova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.07587},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

7 pages, in Russian, submitted to "Istoriko-matematicheskie issledovaniya", minor corrections

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