Welcome.
To change this document, click the edit tab.
You can enter a number range you are interested in, like one to six:
12
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2
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3
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4
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3
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4
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3
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3
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5
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6
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6
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5
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6
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6
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5
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5
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After editing, click the "Expore" tab to see the results.
You can drag and drop circles to change the number-trees.
Double click a circle to re-root the tree with the selected number.
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David W. Matula discovered that you can associate an integer with each rooted tree. Google "Matula Number" for more.
This site calculates the Matula number at each node of a given tree.
Notice how the leaves of Matula trees are prime numbers, and the forks are composite numbers.
For a given number of vertices (v) there are only so many unique trees that can be formed.
I enumerated trees up to seven vertices.
To inform this site to draw a Matula tree, I just enter a number into the edit pane.
This site generates all of the other vertices for you.
To re-root a tree, click on a number. To add a vertex, drag a circle from another tree. To get rid of a vertex, drag it out of the tree onto the page.
To enumerate a range of trees, use the format a:b where a and b are the starting and stoping number, in the edit tab.
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Matula trees by number of vertices:
zero vertices -> one empty space
0
one vertice -> one tree
1
two vertices -> one tree
2
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2
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three vertices -> one tree
3
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4
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3
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four vertices -> two trees
5
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6
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6
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5
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)
7
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8
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7
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7
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five vertices -> three trees
11
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10
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9
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10
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11
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17
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14
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12
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13
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13
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)
)
53
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32
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53
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53
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53
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53
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)
six vertices -> six trees
31
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22
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15
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15
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22
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31
)
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41
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26
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18
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26
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41
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23
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)
)
43
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28
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28
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43
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43
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43
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)
59
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34
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21
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20
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29
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29
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)
)
)
67
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38
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24
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37
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37
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37
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)
131
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64
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131
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131
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131
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131
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131
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)
seven vertices -> eleven trees
83
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46
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27
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46
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83
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46
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83
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)
)
127
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62
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33
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25
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33
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62
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127
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)
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)
)
)
131
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64
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131
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131
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131
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131
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131
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)
139
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68
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49
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68
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139
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139
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)
)(
139
)
)
157
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74
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36
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74
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157
)
)(
61
)(
61
)
)
)
163
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76
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56
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107
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107
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107
)
)(
163
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)
179
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82
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39
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30
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58
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109
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47
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)
)
)
191
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86
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42
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52
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101
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101
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73
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)
)
241
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106
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48
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89
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89
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89
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89
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)
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277
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118
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51
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35
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44
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79
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79
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)
)
)
331
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134
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57
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40
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71
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71
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71
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)
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)
It is easy to refer to trees and nodes with just a Matula number. No arbitrary labeling schemes are required (if you do not care to differentiate vertices that are equivalent under isomorphism).
Conjoining two trees together at vertex p and q is the same as multiplying p and q's Matula number.
Notice how composite numbers belonging to trees of vertex count v are limited to using prime numbers established at lower v trees? Can you prove this?
What other things can we say about the average number of primes as a function of v?
Trees can be entered as parenthesis, for example, two parenthesis sets next to each other is equal to
4
(
3
)(
3
)
.
If you want to know what the nth prime number is, just surround n with parenthesis like this: (n). Here is the hundreth prime:
541
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200
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519
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2062
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8221
)
)
)(
519
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2062
(
8221
)
)
)(
541
)(
541
)
)
.
Have Fun
-- William