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Trees, Teeth, and Time: The mathematics of clock making
- presscast 8y agoI 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 https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0402051.pdf
- espeed 8y agoYeah, that's a good paper -- Vadim's nested-interval tree method is quite clever. For more related references, see... Using rational numbers to key nested sets https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13517490 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13517490
- CMCDragonkai 8y agoGap keys are generally good enough.
- Simulacra 8y agoOn a related note, if you’re interested in clockmaking, the amazing YouTuber ClickSpring has an entire series where he builds a beautiful clock from scratch.