"Stern-Brocot tree" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Stern-Brocot trees [plural]
Etymology: Introduced independently by Moritz Stern (1858) and Achille Brocot (1861). Head templates: {{en-noun}} Stern-Brocot tree (plural Stern-Brocot trees)
  1. (number theory) 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. Categories (topical): Number theory
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