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Achille Brocot

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Gender Male
Death145 years ago
Date of birth July 11,1817
Zodiac sign Cancer
DiedBoissy-Saint-Leger
France
Date of died January 19,1878
Parents Louis-Gabriel Brocot
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Louis Achille Brocot was a French clockmaker and amateur mathematician. He is known for his discovery of the Stern–Brocot tree, a mathematical structure useful in approximating real numbers by rational numbers; this sort of approximation is an important part of the design of gear ratios for clocks.

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