Stern-Brocot Walk

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What It Is

Stern diatomic sequence --- every positive rational visited once, fractal self-similar structure

Interpretation

Standard analysis sees: left-skewed. The atlas additionally detects combinatorially flat (normal-sequence). It sits beside Aliquot Orbit Lengths in the atlas (standard-bank rank 181) — a neighbor conventional features miss.

What standard analysis sees
tail heaviness0.79
asymmetry0.02
occupancy0.44
short-range corr0.48
long-range memory0.69
spectral colour0.29
periodicity0.77
complexity0.35
time-irreversibility0.54
volatility clustering0.17
multifractality0.35
dimensionality0.62
nonstationarity0.56
What the atlas adds
combinatorially flat (normal-sequence)+2.9z
every fixed-length block is near-equiprobable and longer context yields no extra predictability — the De Bruijn / normal-number signature (distinct from random noise, which sits mid-scale)
names deterministic flatness — IID noise sits neutral, NOT at this pole
Atlas-extreme metrics the standard bank can’t predict for this source
Ordinal Partition:memory_order+5.5zbank-miss 1.4σ
D4 Triality:triplet_temporal-4.8zbank-miss 1.6σ
Nonstationarity:change_quantiles_low+4.0zbank-miss 2.7σ
AutoRegressive:ar_coef_8+2.7zbank-miss 1.5σ
Moiré:moire_peak_alpha+2.4zbank-miss 2.2σ
AutoRegressive:ar_coef_9-2.2zbank-miss 2.3σ
H² × ℝ (Thurston):depth_height_corr+2.1zbank-miss 1.1σ
Spectral Analysis:spectral_bandwidth+2.1zbank-miss 2.2σ

Composition

dtypefloat64
range[1.099, 7.857]
unique values1817 / 16384
mean ± std6.33 ± 0.749

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Atlas Position

Nearest neighborDistance
Goldbach r(2n)5.26
Collatz Flights5.40
Aliquot Orbit Lengths5.53

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Which Geometries Light Up

Catch24Catch24:DN_Meanrank 3/2980.7606
D4 TrialityD4 Triality:triplet_temporalrank 298/298-1.4754
Hodge–LaplacianHodge–Laplacian:solenoidal_fractionrank 295/2980.2617
MoiréMoiré:moire_peak_alpharank 5/2983.2500
NonstationarityNonstationarity:change_quantiles_lowrank 3/2980.1412
Ordinal PartitionOrdinal Partition:memory_orderrank 2/2981.0766
Ordinal PartitionOrdinal Partition:time_irreversibilityrank 298/2980.0006
Piecewise-LinearPiecewise-Linear:envelope_arearank 4/29811401.2515
PredictabilityPredictability:entropy_decay_raterank 295/298-0.1814
Spectral AnalysisSpectral Analysis:spectral_bandwidthrank 2/2980.2093
in chaos
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