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On continued fractions and diophantine approximation in power series fields

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0395, U.S.A.

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Pages:
139-166
Main language of publication
English
Received
1998-11-09
Published
2000
Exact and natural sciences