Some new Families of Tasoevian- and Hurwitzian Continued Fractions

Abstract

We derive closed-form expressions for several new classes of Hurwitzian- and Tasoevian continued fractions, including $[0;\overline{p-1,1,u(a+2nb)-1,p-1,1,v(a+(2n+1)b)-1}{]}_{n=0}^{\infty }$, $[0;\overline{c+d{m}^n}{]}_{n=1}^{\infty }$ and $[0;\overline{e{u}^n,f{v}^n}{]}_{n=1}^{\infty }$. One of the constructions used to produce some of these continued fractions can be iterated to produce both Hurwitzian- and Tasoevian continued fractions of arbitrary long quasi-period, with arbitrarily many free parameters and whose limits can be determined as ratios of certain infinite series. We also derive expressions for arbitrarily long \emph{finite} continued fractions whose partial quotients lie in arithmetic progressions.

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