OFFSET
1,6
COMMENTS
Set N(x) = 1 + floor(x) - frac(x) and let '"' denote the ditto operator, referring to the previously computed expression. Assume the first expression is '0'. Then [0, repeat(N("))] will generate the natural numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, ... and [0, repeat(1/N("))] will generate the rational numbers 0/1, 1/1, 1/2, 2/1, 1/3, 3/2, ... Every reduced nonnegative rational number r appears exactly once in this list as a relatively prime pair [n, d] = r = n/d. We list numerator and denominator one after the other in the sequence.
The apt name 'Euclid tree' is taken from the exposition of Malter, Schleicher and Don Zagier. It is sometimes called the Calkin-Wilf tree. The enumeration is based on Stern's diatomic series (which is a subsequence) and computed by a modification of Dijkstra's 'fusc' function.
The tree listed has root 0, the variant with root 1 is more widely used. Seen as sequences the difference between the two trees is trivial: it is enough to leave out the first two terms; but as trees they are markedly different (see the example section).
REFERENCES
M. Aigner and G. M. Ziegler, Proofs from The Book, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 3rd ed., 2004.
LINKS
Peter Luschny, Table of n, row(n) for n = 1..12
N. Calkin and H. S. Wilf, Recounting the rationals, Amer. Math. Monthly, 107 (No. 4, 2000), pp. 360-363.
Edsger Dijkstra, Selected Writings on Computing, Springer, 1982, p. 232. EWD 578: More about the function 'fusc'.
Peter Luschny, Rational Trees and Binary Partitions.
A. Malter, D. Schleicher, and D. Zagier, New looks at old number theory, Amer. Math. Monthly, 120(3), 2013, pp. 243-264.
Moritz A. Stern, Über eine zahlentheoretische Funktion, J. Reine Angew. Math., 55 (1858), 193-220.
FORMULA
Some characteristics in comparison to the tree with root 1, seen as a table with T(n,k) for n >= 1 and 1 <= k <= 2^(n-1). Here Tr(n,k), Tp(n,k), Tq(n,k) denotes the fraction r, the numerator of r and the denominator of r in row n and column k respectively.
With root 0: With root 1:
Root Tr(1,1) 0/1 1/1
Tp(n,1) 0,1,2,3,... 1,1,1,1,...
Tp(n,2^(n-1)) 0,1,2,3,... 1,2,3,4,...
Tq(n,1) 1,1,1,1,... 1,2,3,4,...
Tq(n,2^(n-1)) 1,2,3,4,... 1,1,1,1,...
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a(n) = A002487(floor(n/2)). - Georg Fischer, Nov 29 2022
EXAMPLE
The tree with root 0 starts:
[0/1]
[1/1, 1/2]
[2/1, 1/3, 3/2, 2/3]
[3/1, 1/4, 4/3, 3/5, 5/2, 2/5, 5/3, 3/4]
[4/1, 1/5, 5/4, 4/7, 7/3, 3/8, 8/5, 5/7, 7/2, 2/7, 7/5, 5/8, 8/3, 3/7, 7/4, 4/5]
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The tree with root 1 starts:
[1/1]
[1/2, 2/1]
[1/3, 3/2, 2/3, 3/1]
[1/4, 4/3, 3/5, 5/2, 2/5, 5/3, 3/4, 4/1]
[1/5, 5/4, 4/7, 7/3, 3/8, 8/5, 5/7, 7/2, 2/7, 7/5, 5/8, 8/3, 3/7, 7/4, 4/5, 5/1]
MAPLE
# First implementation: use it only if you are not afraid of infinite loops.
a := x -> 1/(1+floor(x)-frac(x)): 0; do a(%) od;
# Second implementation:
lusc := proc(m) local a, b, n; a := 0; b := 1; n := m; while n > 0 do
if n mod 2 = 1 then b := a + b else a := a + b fi; n := iquo(n, 2) od; a end:
R := n -> 3*2^(n-1)-1 .. 2^n: # The range of level n.
EuclidTree_rat := n -> [seq(lusc(k+1)/lusc(k), k=R(n), -1)]:
EuclidTree_num := n -> [seq(lusc(k+1), k=R(n), -1)]:
EuclidTree_den := n -> [seq(lusc(k), k=R(n), -1)]:
EuclidTree_pair := n -> ListTools:-Flatten([seq([lusc(k+1), lusc(k)], k=R(n), -1)]):
seq(print(EuclidTree_pair(n)), n=1..5);
PROG
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Peter Luschny, Nov 25 2017
STATUS
approved