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The Thue-Morse sequence is not a Sturmian word, so I deleted such false sentence. Fudo

Wow, I too was surprised to learn (just now, from this page) of the Thue-Morse goof. I just came here to say that somone should add the lovely connection with simple continued fractions, Farey-Stern-Brocot tree, and give a figure with the first few digraphs in their proper place in the tree. Eventually someone should link this to Penrose tilings and their generalizations, due to N. G. de Bruijn; see example at right, showing construction by oblique tiling method of a one dimensional Sturmian tiling space associated with the golden ratio. These are sometimes called the Fibonacci tilings.---CH (talk) 18:41, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • I have added the definition of standard word, which gives a connection with continued fractions. I think that now the page is not a stub anymore. Anyway, I'm not an expert about tilings, so I'll leave that to someone else (or at least, I need more time to study it). --fudo 18:07, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Where are they used?

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Where are they used?

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Could we add one or two sentences in the introduction before Section 1 listing (with wikilinks) the main fields where Sturmian words appear and are "used"? Otherwise they'll just look like some mathematical curiosity. PhS (talk) 07:49, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]