A natural way to write non-Natural numbers

In the early 20th century, continued fractions used to be a regular ingredient of the school curriculum, but they have now all but disappeared. In this article we present an elementary treatment based on the Stern-Brocot tree, with emphasis on the fact that they provide a more natural way to represent irrational numbers than the usual decimal expansion.

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REVISTAS
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2025-09-09
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https://doi.org/10.71712/ds13-0e28
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Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
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A natural way to write non-Natural numbers

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A natural way to write non-Natural numbers

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Abstract

In the early 20th century, continued fractions used to be a regular ingredient of the school curriculum, but they have now all but disappeared. In this article we present an elementary treatment based on the Stern-Brocot tree, with emphasis on the fact that they provide a more natural way to represent irrational numbers than the usual decimal expansion.

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Xavier University of Louisiana (US)
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