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  1. Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University, Los Alamos, New Mexico

    R. D. Richtmyer, Marjorie Devaney & N. Metropolis

  2. Institute for Computer Research, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

    R. D. Richtmyer, Marjorie Devaney & N. Metropolis

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The work presented in this paper was supported by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California, under Contract W-7405-Eng-36 with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and by the AEC Computing and Applied Mathematics Center, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, under Contract AT(30-1)-1480 with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

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Richtmyer, R.D., Devaney, M. & Metropolis, N. Continued fraction expansions of algebraic numbers. Numer. Math. 4, 68–84 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01386297

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