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# File: converge.icn
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# Subject: Procedure to produce continued-fraction convergents
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# Author: Ralph E. Griswold
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# Date: June 7, 2000
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# This file is in the public domain.
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# This procedure produces continued-fraction convergents from a list
# of partial quotients.
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# Links: rational
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link rational
procedure converge(seq) #: continued-fraction convergents
local prev_p, prev_q, p, q, t
seq := copy(seq)
prev_p := [0, 1]
prev_q := [1, 0]
while t := get(seq) do {
p := t * prev_p[2] + prev_p[1]
q := t * prev_q[2] + prev_q[1]
suspend rational(p, q, 1)
prev_p[1] := prev_p[2]
prev_p[2] := p
prev_q[1] := prev_q[2]
prev_q[2] := q
}
end
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