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A049456 Triangle T(n,k) = denominator of fraction in k-th term of n-th row of variant of Farey series. This is also Stern's diatomic array read by rows (version 1). 18
1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 3, 2, 3, 1, 1, 4, 3, 5, 2, 5, 3, 4, 1, 1, 5, 4, 7, 3, 8, 5, 7, 2, 7, 5, 8, 3, 7, 4, 5, 1, 1, 6, 5, 9, 4, 11, 7, 10, 3, 11, 8, 13, 5, 12, 7, 9, 2, 9, 7, 12, 5, 13, 8, 11, 3, 10, 7, 11, 4, 9, 5, 6, 1, 1, 7, 6, 11, 5, 14, 9, 13, 4, 15, 11, 18, 7, 17, 10, 13, 3, 14, 11, 19, 8, 21, 13 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,4

COMMENTS

Row n has length 2^n + 1.

A049455/a(n) gives another version of the Stern-Brocot tree.

Define mediant of a/b and c/d to be (a+c)/(b+d). We get A006842/A006843 if we omit terms from n-th row in which denominator exceeds n.

REFERENCES

C. Giuli and R. Giuli, A primer on Stern's diatomic sequence, Fib. Quart., 17 (1979), 103-108, 246-248 and 318-320 (but beware errors).

J. C. Lagarias, Number Theory and Dynamical Systems, pp. 35-72 of S. A. Burr, ed., The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Number Theory, Proc. Sympos. Appl. Math., 46 (1992). Amer. Math. Soc.

D. H. Lehmer, On Stern's Diatomic Series, Amer. Math. Monthly 36(1) 1929, pp. 59-67.

W. J. LeVeque, Topics in Number Theory. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 2 vols., 1956, Vol. 1, p. 154.

M. Shrader-Frechette, Modified Farey sequences and continued fractions, Math. Mag., 54 (1981), 60-63.

LINKS

N. J. A. Sloane, Stern-Brocot or Farey Tree

Index entries for sequences related to Stern's sequences

FORMULA

Each row is obtained by copying the previous row but interpolating the sums of pairs of adjacent terms. E.g. after 1 2 1 we get 1 1+2 2 2+1 1.

Row 1 of Farey tree is 0/1, 1/1. Obtain row n from row n-1 by inserting mediants between each pair of terms.

EXAMPLE

0/1, 1/1; 0/1, 1/2, 1/1; 0/1, 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, 1/1; 0/1, 1/4, 1/3, 2/5, 1/2, 3/5, 2/3, 3/4, 1/1; 0/1, 1/5, 1/4, 2/7, 1/3, 3/8, 2/5, 3/7, 1/2, ... = A049455/A049456

Array begins

1...............................1

1...............2...............1

1.......3.......2.......3.......1

1...4...3...5...2...5...3...4...1

1.5.4.7.3.8.5.7.2.7.5.8.3.7.4.5.1

.................................

CROSSREFS

Coincides with A002487 if pairs of adjacent 1's are replaced by single 1's.

Cf. A049455, A007305, A007306, A006842, A006843, A064881-A064886, A070878, A070879.

Sequence in context: A153901 A132844 A006843 * A117506 A179205 A055089

Adjacent sequences:  A049453 A049454 A049455 * A049457 A049458 A049459

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,tabf,frac,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Larry Reeves (larryr(AT)acm.org), Apr 12 2000

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