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On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 7:40 PM, John Cowan <cowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Arthur A. Gleckler scripsit: > > > This doesn't seem to be useful enough to warrant inclusion in a general > > library. Do you have some general class of applications in mind? > > It's the rational-number analogue of iota. It's not as intuitive an > ordering as 1, 2, 3, 4, ... and can't be used for indexing, but it > does traverse the whole (non-negative) set of rational numbers. > The particulars of the ordering are nothing special, except that > they require only a single item of state, the last rational number > generated, and there is a once-and-only-once guarantee. > Yes, but I'm still wondering what it would be used for. Is it commonly needed?