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From: mac@uvacs.UUCP (Alex Colvin)
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Subject: Re: Real Number Representations
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 23:52:50 EST
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>        request for encodings that may not be well known as well

Continued fractions are a number system without unique representation,
allowing arithmetic to be pipelined digit by digit.  Results can be
computed to the required precision.

There is a description of this by R.  W.  Gosper in MIT AI memo 239,
item#101.  He refers to Knuth, V. 2, p. 316.