So this was an interesting section to read. It was a little difficult to follow the algorithm described in the chapter for building the continued fraction, but I'm sure that will be resolved with practice. The random theorem given with the absolute value and the s^2 is a little interesting, I'm not sure how it's useful. But I'm sure I'll find out.
It's been bothering me trying to remember when I've done continued fractions before. I think we did it in history of math, but I can't remember why. Either way, I'm interested to see how this applied to cryptography. Much of the number theory we've done before was a little more obviously applicable. I'm interested to see how this one fits in.
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