[Axiom-math] Re: continued fractions

[Martin Rubey]

Stephen Watt <address@hidden> writes:

> The continued fraction domain is, however, described (but not in depth) in
> the paper
> 
>   Infinite Structures in Scratchpad II, W.H. Burge and S.M. Watt,
>   pp. 138-148, Proc. 1987 European Conference on Computer Algebra, (EUROCAL
>   87), June 2-5 1987, Leipzig, German Democratic Republic, LNCS 378, Springer
>   1989.

> I've attached the preprint version from 1987.

Thank you for the paper.  Unfortunately, it only (roughly) describes what
CONTFRAC can do, but not how it does it or where the algorithm would be
described.

I guess I'll have to do some reverse-engineering.  If you have time though, I'd
appreciate some help.

Have a good stay,

Martin