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Applications Involving Continued Fractions

This lecture returns to the consideration of continued fractions and examines what happens when we truncate the continued fraction of a real number. The result involves two of our old friends—the Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio—and finally explains why the musical scale consists of 12 notes.

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