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Continuants and precontinuants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

G. T. Bennett
G. T. Bennett
Affiliation:
Emmanuel CollegeCambridge
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1. It is here expedient to ignore the continued fractions from which they are usually derived and to define the simple continuants determined by the parameters a1, a2, a3, …, an, … as given by the chain of difference equations

together with the initial values u0 = 0, u1 = 1: and these data lead successively to the functions

and

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , November 1939 , pp. 548 - 561
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1939

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* Here and later where no ambiguity would arise the tabular continuant symbol [p, q] will be written in the attenuated form pq. The empty square brackets are reminders of the omission.