bloodhound Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 What's the convention nowdays? The reference book I am using (which is pretty old btw) goes [math]a_1+\cfrac{b_1}{a_2+\cfrac{b_2}{a_3+\cfrac{b_3}{a_4+\ldots}}}[/math] While the online resources goes a_0,b_1,a_1,b_2... Also which one is more conventional [math][a_1;a_2,a_3][/math] or [math][a_1,a_2,a_3][/math] I know it doesnt matter, but I just wanna stick to the standards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primarygun Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 I was made to accept the [a1,a2,a3] The latter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 In my course, we used the notation [imath]a_0,a_1,a_2,a_3,\dots[/imath] - the advantage being, that for periodic continued fractions, we could simply represent it as: [imath]a_0, a_1, a_2, \overline{a_3, a_4, a_5}[/imath]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodhound Posted July 26, 2005 Author Share Posted July 26, 2005 erm yeah but my main question was wheter to start the sequence from a_0 or a_1, i guess if everyone is doing it from a_0, I should as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 Sorry, I didn't realise that was the question I would probably start from a0 as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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