Fractions: Continued, Egyptian and Farey

Continued fractions are one of the most delightful and useful subjects of arithmetic, yet they have been continually neglected by our educational factions. Here we discuss their applications as approximating fractions for rational or irrational numbers and functions, their relations with measure theory (and deterministic chaos!), their use in electrical networks and in solving the “squared square”; and the Fibonacci and Lucas numbers and some of their endless applications.

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