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I got a "marked as incorrect" flag:
{{incorrect|J| <br> First and last Farey terms aren't expressed as fractions as per the definition, <br> no terms shown are expressed as fractions, <br> (see the '''C''' programming example's output as an example). <br> }} {{omit from|J}}
Here's an example:
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:::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 20:17, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
So we are asked to renounce centuries of mathematics that have taught us that 0/1=0 and 1/1=1, just to please someone who wants to really write 0/1 and 1/1, just for the heck of it. And while some languages have a builtin, standard and idiosyncratic way of expressing something, we are asked to replace this simplicity by some ugly hack, just to print 0/1 and 1/1. Brilliant. Sometimes I can understand we want some very special output, but here the task is to cumpute numbers, requiring to renounce the sensible output is... well, brilliant. By the way it's precisely to prevent such a brilliant reaction that I wrote [[Matrix chain multiplication]] to leave some flexibility. [[User:Eoraptor|Eoraptor]] ([[User talk:Eoraptor|talk]]) 17:05, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
: No, nobody is asking anyone to renounce centuries of mathematics. This Rosetta Code task is to compute and display Farey sequence(s), and also to count the terms in some sequences. The displaying the numbers '''0''', '''0.5''', '''1''' (with or without the commas) is <u>not</u> the method used to show a Farey sequence. This task doesn't ask to compute numbers (''per se''), but to specifically compute a <u>Farey sequence</u> The defined format is: '''0/0''', '''1/2''', '''1/1''' (with or without the commas) is the standard and defined format, although the use of a solidus is the more conventional method where the use of HTML within a computer programming language is impossible or impractical. When using HTML, a horizontal line is most often used (to separate the numerator from the denominator), as in the case of this Rosetta Code task's preamble. If you want to push your boulder up a hill, complain to all the authors, textbooks, and wiki sites that define a Farey sequence as used here on this Rosetta Code task. But when complaining here on Rosetta Code, it helps to actually discuss things and ask questions, and not use inflammatory rhetoric. The discussion will go much easier if one doesn't use such sarcasm, the use of which pretty much shuts down a meaningful or productive conversation. Whether you think the output is ugly (and a hack), that is the defined and standard method of showing a Farey sequence. I've re-read the Wikipedia and MathWorld™ entries, nobody on the Wiki sites has complained about ugliness or it being a hack. If you are creating Rosetta Code tasks to avoid "brilliant" reactions, you're going to be disappointed. The requirements of this task weren't just thought up ''for the heck of it'' (or just to please me). I've done the research from more than a few sites, and I didn't just throw in some arbitrary requirements to cause everyone to renounce (their) sensible output. I know it is simpler to write/display a '''zero''' and a '''one''' instead of the standard ''end terms'' for a Farey sequence, but this isn't the place to tilt at windmills. Rosetta Code is a pretty good place to discuss such topics, but to be productive, it would help immensely if you would behave more cordially and refrained from such rhetoric which makes it difficult to have a productive discourse. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 21:48, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
==Parts of formulae here now invisible to many browsers==
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