How did Ramanujan solve the STRAND puzzle?

Today’s video is about making sense of an infinite fraction that pops up in an anecdote about the Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan. This was supposed to be a short video but in the end turned out to be quite a tricky to sort out. Anyway, as it sometimes happens, I got carried away and now the video really covers a lot of ground : Pell equations, visualising continued fractions by dissecting rectangles into squares, the relationship between continued fractions and the Euclidean algorithm, the
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