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On representing some real numbers exactly
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sigfpe.com
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ssp
on July 16, 2010
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drallison
on July 16, 2010
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Continued fractions provide an interesting representation. See, for example, Mencer's
Precision of Semi-Exact Redundant Continued Fraction Arithmetic for VLSI
,
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=892637
. See also, Mark Jason Dominus's article,
http://perl.plover.com/yak/cftalk/
.
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