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Continued Fractions of Algebraic Numbers

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The work of the second author was supported in part by grants from the Australian Research Council and by a research agreement with Digital Equipment Corporation.

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  1. School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, 08540, USA

    Enrico Bombieri

  2. CeNTRe for Number Theory Research, Macquarie University, NSW, 2109, Australia

    Alfred J. van der Poorten

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  1. School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Wieb Bosma

  2. CeNTRe for Number Theory Research, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

    Alf van der Poorten

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Bombieri, E., van der Poorten, A.J. (1995). Continued Fractions of Algebraic Numbers. In: Bosma, W., van der Poorten, A. (eds) Computational Algebra and Number Theory. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 325. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1108-1_10

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