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The modern theory of (infinite) continued fractions probably begins with Bombelli (1526–1672) [1] in which he computes the square roots of numbers by the following device.
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Mitrinović, D.S., Pečarić, J.E., Fink, A.M. (1993). Continued Fractions and Padé Approximation Method. In: Classical and New Inequalities in Analysis. Mathematics and Its Applications (East European Series), vol 61. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1043-5_25
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