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On a theorem of Heilbronn

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

J. W. Porter
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University College, Cardiff.
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In an article [2] in a volume of papers dedicated to the memory of Edmund Landau, Heilbronn investigates the following problem on continued fractions, posed by Dr. J. Gillis:

Let a and N be natural numbers such that 1 ≤ a < N and (a, N) = 1. Then there exist unique natural numbers ci such that

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Copyright © University College London 1975

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