Re: continued fractions
Stephen Watt <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Dec 2007 20:33:35 -0500
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P.S. I agree it would be interesting to work through the details of using Gosper's z(x,y) = (a x y + b x + c y + d) / (e x y + f x + g y + h) compositions in a categorical framework. -- Stephen On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 09:52:19PM +0100, Martin Rubey wrote: > Stephen Watt <[email protected]> writes: > > > Dear Martin, > > > > The quick answer is that I don't remember off the top of my head what > > restrictions exist on the domain parameter. > > > > I'm on the road now (just 10 minutes ago checked into my hotel) and so > > don't have access to a couple of things that would refresh my memory. > > Stephen, do you happen to remember whether you have been aware of Gosper's > algorithms for continued fractions? I cannot be sure, but it seems that > CONTFRAC is not using them, is it? > > Martin