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6. Further Note on Continuants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

Thomas Muir
Affiliation:
Assistant to the Professor of Mathematics in Glasgow University.
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Extract

In my paper on Continuants, recently communicated to the Royal Society, it was shown that the order of a continuant may be depressed if the first element of the main diagonal be unity, viz., thus:—

and from the definition it is evident that

Hence we have

Type
Proceedings 1873-74
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1875

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