A method of convergence acceleration of some continued fractions (Q2494386)

The author presents a new algorithm of convergence acceleration of continued fraction \(b_0+K_{k=1}^{\infty}(a_k/b_k)\), where \(a_k\) and \(b_k\) tend for \(k\) large to polynomials in \(k\) of degree \(2\) and \(\leq1\), respectively. The algorithm follows two original ways of approximation of the \(n^{th}\) tails \(t_n=K_{k=n+1}^{\infty}(a_k/b_k)\) of considered continued fraction obtaining first an approximation \(t'_n\) satisfying \(t'_n-t_n=O(n^{-m})\) for some \(m>0\). Next, this approximation allows to compute the better one \(t''_n\) satisfying \(t''_n-t_n=O(n^{-m-2})\), then, the convergence acceleration factor is \(n^2\). The method is illustrated by many examples of slowly convergent continued fractions and it gives spectacular results.