continued fractions for nth degree roots



On 2/19/07, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> Here's the code for continued fraction expansion of *arbitrary*
> numerical-valued expressions, including transcendental functions. It is
> pretty robust even for rational results, e.g. sin(2)^2+cos(2)^2 or
> asin(1/sqrt(2))/%pi, and gives a warning when the result might look more
> precise than it is.

Thanks for posting the cf-bigfloat code. How does this fit into the
existing cf stuff? Or is it a replacement?

Robert