compound fraction

For example, of is a compound fraction, corresponding to .

"Compound fractions, it seems to me.

The terms compound fraction and complex fraction are closely related and sometimes one is used as a synonym for the other.

To reduce a compound fraction to a simple fraction, just carry out the multiplication (see the section on multiplication).

Numerators and denominators are also used in fractions that are not simple, including compound fractions, complex fractions, and mixed numerals.

A compound fraction is a fraction of a fraction, or any number of fractions connected with the word of, corresponding to multiplication of fractions.

This claim appears to refer to Fibonacci's compound fraction notation in which a sequence of numerators and denominators sharing the same fraction bar represents an ascending continued fraction: