Structure of the set of numbers with special continued fractions

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Which structure does the set of numbers (possibly rational) with the property, that its continued fraction only contains the numbers $1$ and $2$, have ?

Let us denote the set of such real numbers with $S$.

$S$ contains numbers as $1$ , $2$ , $\ \sqrt{2}+1\ $ and $\ \frac{\sqrt{5}+1}{2}\ $. Since the set of infinite sequences with entries $1$ or $2$ is uncountable, there are uncountable many irrational numbers in $S$. Which elements of $S$ are limit points ? Is $S$ dense in a real interval ?

To avoid ambiguity, a number like $[1,2,1,1,2,2,1]$ is NOT in $S$ since it can be written as $[1,2,1,1,2,3]$, which has a "$3$".