Trees, Teeth, and Time: The mathematics of clock making

I skimmed the article and saved it for later reading.

Just wanted to point out that continued fractions are also interesting for those trying to encode hierarchical data into SQL tables: https://arxiv.org/pdf/cs/0402051.pdf

On a related note, if you’re interested in clockmaking, the amazing YouTuber ClickSpring has an entire series where he builds a beautiful clock from scratch.