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The article explicitly claims

> Rational numbers or fractions must have a simplest form.

They make no claim about uniqueness, but that is not needed in the argument.




t0mek sais "the simplest form", but the comment is fixable by changing that to "a simplest form". (For example, if hypothetically a/b and c/d where somehow the same number, and yet somehow there is no x such that a/b = xc/xd, the argument about how 2 divides into a and b also applies to c and d.)




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