Stern-Brocot tree

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Stern-Brocot tree

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Etymology Introduced independently by Moritz Stern (1858) and Achille Brocot (1861).

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Mathematics, Number theory, Sciences An infinite complete binary tree whose vertices correspond one-for-one to the positive rational numbers, whose values are ordered from the left to the right as in a search tree.

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