I first read about continued fractions in HAKMEM from 1972. These things have fascinated programmers for decades.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190906055006/http://home.pipel...

Here's another one by Gosper, with the famous quote:

> Abstract: Contrary to everybody, this self contained paper will show that continued fractions are not only perfectly amenable to arithmetic, they are amenable to perfect arithmetic.

https://perl.plover.com/yak/cftalk/INFO/gosper.txt