If r be the number of quotients in the recurring cycle, we can by writing down the relations connectin g the successive p's and q's obtain a linear relation connecting p nr +m, t'(n-1)r +m, +m in which the coefficients are all constants.
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This turns out to be inconvenient, so instead we replace the q s in the denominator by their MLE.
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