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    Visual Proof: The mediant is in the middle

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    Usually I’ve seen this done algebraically. See:  213-farey-sequences   But from a vector addition standpoint (or a parallelogram) you can see visually that the slope of the diagonal which is the mediant falls between the original slopes.

    Tags: fractions, geometry

    Updated: July 24, 2018

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