Some wonderful formulae... Footnotes to Apery’s proof of the irrationality of
In this paper we describe a -dimensional generalization of the Euclidean algorithm which stems from the dynamics of -interval exchange transformations. We investigate various diophantine properties of the algorithm including the quality of simultaneous approximations. We show it verifies the following Lagrange type theorem: the algorithm is eventually periodic if and only if the parameters lie in the same quadratic extension of