Fraction interpolation walking a Farey tree

  • Authors:
  • Marc Mosko;J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves

  • Affiliations:
  • Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA;Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA and Computer Engineering Department, University of California Santa Cruz, CA 95014, USA

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present an algorithm to find a proper fraction in simplest reduced terms between two reduced proper fractions. A proper fraction is a rational number m/n with m1. A fraction m/n is simpler than p/q if m=