A Continued Fraction of Ramanujan

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George E. Andrews

چکیده

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.

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