On the Khintchine constant

Mathematics of Computation

Volumn 66, Issue 217, 1997, Pages 417-431

  Bailey, David H ^a   Borwein, Jonathan M ^b   Crandall, Richard E ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c REED COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational number theory; Continued fractions geometric mean; Harmonic mean; Khintchine constant; Polylogarithms; Zeta functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031540171     PISSN: 00255718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0025-5718-97-00800-4     Document Type: Article

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