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Geometry of Continued Fractions 

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The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 96, No. 8 (Oct., 1989), pp. 696-703

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Document Outline

• Article Contents
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  • p. 702
  • p. 703
• Issue Table of Contents
  • American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 96, No. 8 (Oct., 1989) pp. 681-768
    • Front Matter [pp. ]
    • Pi, Euler Numbers, and Asymptotic Expansions [pp. 681-687]
    • The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition [pp. 688-695]
    • Geometry of Continued Fractions [pp. 696-703]
    • The Editor's Corner: The White Screen Problem [pp. 704-707]
    • Letters to the Editor [pp. 708-710]
    • Notes
      • Fifty Years of Putnam Trivia [pp. 711-713]
      • Fixed Points of the Twisted Cyclic Shift Operator [pp. 713-717]
      • Fubini's Theorem for Null Sets [pp. 718-721]
      • An Optimization Problem [pp. 721-725]
      • A Characterization of a Class of Composition Operators [pp. 725-726]
    • The Teaching of Mathematics
      • Coupled Linear Differential Equations with Real Coefficients [pp. 727-731]
      • Irrationals and the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic [pp. 732]
      • A Supplement to I. N. Herstein's Remark on Finite Fields [pp. 733]
    • Problems and Solutions
      • Elementary Problems: E3343-E3348 [pp. 734-735]
      • Solutions of Elementary Problems
        • E3185 [pp. 735-736]
        • E3186 [pp. 736-738]
        • E3193 [pp. 738-739]
        • E3214 [pp. 739-741]
        • E3249 [pp. 741-742]
        • E3261 [pp. 742-743]
        • E3266 [pp. 743]
      • Advanced Problems: 6609-6611 [pp. 743-744]
      • Solutions of Advanced Problems
        • 6543 [pp. 744-745]
        • 6554 [pp. 745-747]
        • 6560 [pp. 747-749]
    • Reviews
      • Review: untitled [pp. 750-753]
      • Review: untitled [pp. 753-756]
    • Telegraphic Reviews [pp. 757-768]
    • Back Matter [pp. ]