Abstract
A Gauss-Kusmin theorem for the natural extension of the regular continued fraction expansion is given. A generalization of a theorem by D. E. Knuth is obtained by similar techniques.
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Research of the first author supported by the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO).