The fifth largest pair of adjacent gaps in this range are on either side of what angle up from the x-axis?
If use the same Python script shown earlier in the Classic answer, using the value of k=6 in the Python code, we get that for large enough values of R, the next few largest pair of adjacent gaps occur at the following bearings, respectively: θ∗2=tan−1(13)≈18.434948823…∘θ∗3=tan−1(23)≈33.690067526…∘θ∗4=tan−1(14)≈14.036243468…∘. Through now, we still maintain that these are corresponding to the next highest peaks of Thomae's function at x∗2=34,x∗3=35 and x∗4=45, respectively. However, continuing one step further, we see that for sufficiently large values of R, the fifth largest pair of adjacent gaps occurs at θ∗5=tan−1(34)≈36.869897649…∘, which in fact skips over the next highest Thomae's function value of ˜x=56 in favor of x∗5=47. Don't feel too bad for ˜x=56, since it is equivalent to the bearing θ∗6=tan−1(15)≈11.309932474…∘, which is in fact the bearing around which you can find the next largest adjacent pair gaps. Perhaps you could still feel bad for Thomae's function's explanatory powers, though.
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