English Explanatory Dictionary

continued fraction

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

continued fraction continued fractions continued-fraction

Related words

convergent

Derived words

Euler's continued fraction formula finite continued fraction general continued fraction generalized continued fraction infinite continued fraction periodic continued fraction regular continued fraction Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction simple continued fraction
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