On some limit theorems for continued fractions
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Abstract:
As a consequence of previous results on mixing random variables, some functional limit theorems for quantities related to the continued fraction expansion of a random number in $(0,1)$ are given.References
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- © Copyright 1989 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 316 (1989), 53-79
- MSC: Primary 60F05
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1989-0948197-9
- MathSciNet review: 948197