https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cs_0402051/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18077925urn:hackerpapers:mention:cs_0402051:18077925Wed, 26 Sep 2018 16:57:40 GMT<p>I skimmed the article and saved it for later reading. Just wanted to point out that continued fractions are also interesting for those trying to encode hierarchical data into SQL tables: https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0402051.pdf</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cs_0402051/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.DBhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13517871urn:hackerpapers:mention:cs_0402051:13517871Mon, 30 Jan 2017 00:57:14 GMT<p>This builds on Vadim Tropashko&#x27;s work related to nested intervals and is related to the Stern-Brocot and Farey sequence and Calkin-Wilf tree: Nested Intervals Tree Encoding with Continued Fractions https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0402051.pdf Nested Intervals Tree Encoding in SQL http://www09.sigmod.org/sigmod/record/issues/0506/p47-articl... Nested Set Model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_set_model Farey sequence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farey_sequence Stern–Brocot tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E2%80%93Brocot_tree Calkin–Wilf tree…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/cs_0402051/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.DB