rational_number

This implements basic rational numbers in Ruby. It can be used in tree implementations and provides a really fast way of looking up a sorted tree.

Read about rational numbers in tree structures here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0806.3115v1.pdf

Note: This is NOT a tree implementation, it is only a wrapper of rational numbers in ruby.

For a proper tree implementation see e.g. mm-tree

Latest stable release:

gem 'rational_number'

For latest edge version:

gem 'rational_number', :git => 'https://github.com/leifcr/rational_number.git'

This gem supports the following versions of ruby

• ruby 1.9.3
• ruby 2.0.0
• ruby 2.1.2

gem install rational_number

a = RationalNumber.new # Root
b = a.child_from_position(1) # Get child of root in position 1
b.next_sibling # Get next sibling of b
b.sibling_from_position(5) #Get sibling in position 5 on the current "level"

# More advanced
b.rational_number_from_ancestor_and_position(b,5) # Get a specific rational number from a given ancestor and position

# check if rational numbers are related
a.has_child?(b) # true
b.is_child_of?(root) # true

b.has_ancestor?(a) # true
a.is_ancestor_of?(b) # true

For more examples see the spec in spec/rational_number_spec.rb

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Send me a pull request, if you have features you like to see implemented.

Dan Hazel: For his paper on rational numbers

Original ideas are Copyright Jakob Vidmar and Joel Junström. Please see their github repositories for details Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Leif Ringstad. See LICENSE for details.