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Stern-Brocot tree

Stern-Brocot tree noun: 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.

Noun

Stern-Brocot tree (plural Stern-Brocot trees)

  1. 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.

Forms of Stern-Brocot tree

pluralStern-Brocot trees

Origin of Stern-Brocot tree

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

Questions about Stern-Brocot tree

What does Stern-Brocot tree mean?
Stern-Brocot tree means 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.
What part of speech is Stern-Brocot tree?
Stern-Brocot tree is a noun.
What is the plural of Stern-Brocot tree?
The plural of Stern-Brocot tree is Stern-Brocot trees.

Words near Stern-Brocot tree in the dictionary

  1. stern plane
  2. stern planes
  3. stern sex
  4. stern sheets
  5. stern-
  6. Stern-Brocot tree
  7. Stern-Brocot trees
  8. Stern-Gerlach experiment
  9. stern-wheeler
  10. stern-wheelers
  11. sterna

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