Periodiccontinuedfractionsarewellunderstood.Wecandeterminewhentheyconverge,whentheydiverge,theirvaluesiftheyconvergeandtheasymptoticbehavioroftheirtailsequences.Indeed,itisallamatterofiterationsoflinearfractionaltransformations,andwehaveclosedexpressionsfortheirapproximantsSn(w).