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Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-09 S. G. Dani , Ojas Sahasrabudhe

In this paper we define "a continued fraction expansion of the exponential integral $E_{1}(x)$ at infinity", which is analogous to the regular continued fraction expansion of real numbers, and prove that this expansion gives the same…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-03 Naoki Murabayashi , Hayato Yoshida

We introduce here a general framework for studying continued fraction expansions for complex numbers and establish some results on the convergence of the corresponding sequence of convergents. For continued fraction expansions with partial…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-16 S. G. Dani

The autor propose the elementary derivation of the continued fraction expansion for function sec(x) + tan(x).

History and Overview · Mathematics 2012-08-13 S. N. Gladkovskii

For a purely $N$-periodic continued fraction $\xi=[\overline{a_0,a_1,\dots,a_{N-1}}]=[a_0,a_1,\cdots]$, with $a_k=a_{k+N}$ for all $k\ge 0$, and convergents $h_n/k_n=[a_0,a_1,\dots,a_n]$, we obtain explicit expressions for the weighted…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Kevin Calderon , Nikita Kalinin

Several years ago the second author playing with different "recognizers of real constants", e.g., the LLL algorithm, the Plouffe inverter, etc. found empirically the following formula. Let $p_n/q_n$ denote the $n$th convergent of the…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-14 Jean-Paul Allouche , Thomas Baruchel

We give an elementary geometric proof using Ford circles that the convergents of the continued fraction expansion of a real number $\alpha$ coincide with the rationals that are best approximations of the second kind of $\alpha$.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-12-11 Ian Short

In this note, we show that any continued fraction convergent of the number $e = 2.71828...$ can be derived by approximating some integral $I_{n, m} := \int_{0}^{1} x^n (1 - x)^m e^x d x$ $(n, m \in \mathbb{N})$ by 0. In addition, we present…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2010-05-20 Bakir Farhi

We present several continued fraction algorithms, each of which gives an eventually periodic expansion for every quadratic element of ${\mathbb Q}_p$ over ${\mathbb Q}$ and gives a finite expansion for every rational number. We also give,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Asaki Saito , Jun-ichi Tamura , Shin-ichi Yasutomi

In this paper we establish properties of independence for the continued fraction expansions of two algebraic numbers. Roughly speaking, if the continued fraction expansions of two irrational algebraic numbers have the same long sub-word,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-02-10 Xianzu Lin

We extend the Series' connection between the modular surface $\mathcal{M}=\operatorname{PSL}(2,\mathbb{Z})\backslash\mathbb{H}$, cutting sequences, and regular continued fractions to the slow converging Lehner and Farey continued fractions…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Claire Merriman

We give a direct and simple proof of Touchard's continued fraction, provide an extension of it, and transform it into similar expansions related to Motzkin and Schroeder numbers. Another proof is then given that uses only induction. We use…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-28 Helmut Prodinger

We study the generalized continued fraction expansions of complex numbers in term of elements from Euclidean subrings, especially Gaussian or Eisenstein integers, in a general framework as pursued in [3] and [1]. We introduce a common…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-01-18 S. G. Dani , Ojas Sahasrabudhe

We explain in detail how to accelerate continued fractions (for constants as well as for functions) using the method used by R.~Ap\'ery in his proof of the irrationality of $\zeta(3)$. We show in particular that this can be applied to a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Henri Cohen

In a partially ordered semigroup with the duality (or polarity) transform, it is possible to define a generalisation of continued fractions. General sufficient conditions for convergence of continued fractions with deterministic terms are…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-08 Ilya Molchanov

We provide a generalization of continued fractions to the Heisenberg group. We prove an explicit estimate on the rate of convergence of the infinite continued fraction and several surprising analogs of classical formulas about continued…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Anton Lukyanenko , Joseph Vandehey

An explicit construction of infinite sequences of strongly regular digraphs with parameter sets $((v+(2^{n+1}-4)t)2^{n-1}, k+(2^n-2)t, t, \lambda, t)$ is described. A computer program was used to find the initial digraphs. The remaining…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Viktor A. Byzov , Igor A. Pushkarev

We reformulate several known results about continued fractions in combinatorial terms. Among them the theorem of Conway and Coxeter and that of Series, both relating continued fractions and triangulations. More general polygon dissections…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-28 Sophie Morier-Genoud , Valentin Ovsienko

In an earlier paper we introduced the notion of 'bifurcating continued fractions' in a heuristic manner. In this paper a formal theory is developed for the 'bifurcating continued fractions'.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ashok Kumar Mittal , Ashok Kumar Gupta

Given a positive integer $N$ and $x$ irrational between zero and one, an $N$-continued fraction expansion of $x$ is defined analogously to the classical continued fraction expansion, but with the numerators being all equal to $N$. Inspired…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Niels Langeveld , Lucía Rossi , Jörg M. Thuswaldner