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Noun Concept
Categories: Articles with short description, Mathematical analysis, Continued fractions
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continued fraction  Anthyphairetic ratio  approximant  best rational approximation  Chain fraction
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A fraction whose numerator is an integer and whose denominator is an integer plus a fraction whose numerator is an integer and whose denominator is an integer plus a fraction and so on WordNet 3.0
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A fraction whose numerator is an integer and whose denominator is an integer plus a fraction whose numerator is an integer and whose denominator is an integer plus a fraction and so on WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In mathematics, a continued fraction is an expression obtained through an iterative process of representing a number as the sum of its integer part and the reciprocal of another number, then writing this other number as the sum of its integer part and another reciprocal, and so on. Wikipedia
A compound numerical expression consisting of an integer plus a fraction whose numerator is a positive integer and whose denominator is a continued fraction (an integer plus a fraction), and so on, with finite or infinite recursion. Wiktionary
Number theory. Wiktionary (translation)