Can you list all the “small” fractions, that is, those using
no number higher than 5, in order of size from 0 to 1?
Who was the Mathematician who named this series of ordered fractions after himself in 1816?
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Actually, as far as I can tell, he was a geologist, really :).
Nice problem, lots of room to play with it.
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