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Re: How to do Continued fraction of polynomials

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  • Subject: [mg53082] Re: [mg53052] How to do Continued fraction of polynomials
  • From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:58:11 -0500 (EST)
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Needs["NumberTheory`ContinuedFractions`"];

expr = (x^3+2x)/(x^2+1);

ContinuedFractionForm[ContinuedFraction[expr/.x->7,3]] /. 7->x

ContinuedFractionForm[{x, x, x}]

%//Normal // Together

(x^3 + 2*x)/(x^2 + 1)


Bob Hanlon

> 
> From: Milind Gupta <milind.gupta at gmail.com>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Date: 2004/12/22 Wed AM 04:52:42 EST
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Subject: [mg53082] [mg53052] How to do Continued fraction of polynomials
> 
> How can we do a continued fraction expansion in Mathematica.
> 
>    Suppose we have
>              x^3 + 2x
>              ------------
>               x^2 + 1
> 
> and we want:
> 
>      x  +       1
>              -------------
>               x   +    1
>                         ----
>                           x
> 
>      Can we get this by using some function or some technique in 
Mathematica??
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Milind Gupta
> Graduate Student
> University of Southern California
> milind.gupta at usc.edu
> http://www-scf.usc.edu/~milindgu/
> 
> 


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