For the relation between the Farey numbers and the XOR table, please visit the page:
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/blue/Fusc.shtml
I found the problem from: http://www.cut-the-knot.org/arithmetic/NimSum.shtml
also in an old book from authors: A. M. Iaglom, I. M. Iaglom: "Nonelementary problems treated elementary" - problem 127.
Related to this problem I found some fractals: the Sierpinski gasket fractal and Peano.
For the Sierpinski fractal the procedure is the following:
- every number stored in the position (i,j) will be expressed like i+j + d where d has a meaning of difference.
For the first rows if we memo in an array just the differences we obtain:
0 0 0 0
0 2 0 2
0 0 4 4
0 2 4 6
The matrix begin with the position (0,0).
This matrix can be represented with colors and we obtain the Sierpinski gasket; it is the same like representing on the coordinates (i,j) the a pixel with the color i xor j.
If we follow the odd and even numbers of the XOR table we obtain the Peano curve
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