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Variations on the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction in Ramanujan's notebooks

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Andrews, G.E., Jacobsen, L., Berndt, B.C., Lamphere, R.L. (1989). Variations on the Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction in Ramanujan's notebooks. In: Alladi, K. (eds) Number Theory, Madras 1987. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1395. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0086400

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