Re: general solution for element of series
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- Subject: [mg39991] Re: general solution for element of series
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 04:45:21 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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In article <b4k3uo$8hn$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
"Michael Beqq" <mbekkali at iastate.edu> wrote:
> Suppose I have expressions of x generated by some function f for any given
> j:
>
> (j=1) => z=1/x=H[x,1]
> (j=2) => z=1/(x-(1/x))=H[x,2]
> (j=3) => z=1/(x-(1/(x-(1/x))))=H[x,3]
> (j=4) => z=1/(x-1/(x-(1/(x-(1/x)))))=H[x,4]
> ...........
> (j=j) => z= H(x,j)
>
> I would like to know how I can find the function that generates this
> sequence for some particular element j, that is, for any j=1,....,J I can
> express z as a function of x and j;
Since it is a continued fraction, you can use
H[x_,j_]:=FromContinuedFraction[Join[{0}, Table[(-1)^i x, {i, 0, j-1}]]]
Cheers,
Paul
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