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A continued fraction of Ramanujan

Part of: Series expansions Convergence and divergence of infinite limiting processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

M. D. Hirschhorn
M. D. Hirschhorn
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics University of New South WalesKensington, NSW 2033, Australia
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Abstract

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In a manuscript discovered in 1976 by George E. Andrews, Ramanujan states a formula for a certain continued fraction, without proof. In this paper we establish formulae for the convergents to the continued fraction, from which Ramanujan's result is easily deduced.

MSC classification

Secondary: 30B70: Continued fractions 40A15: Convergence and divergence of continued fractions
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , February 1980 , pp. 80 - 86
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1980

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