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Fa'rey se"quence



Pronunciation: (fâr'ē), [key] Math.
the increasing sequence of fractions in which numerator and denominator have no common divisor other than one and in which the denominator is less than or equal to a given positive integer p. For p = 4, the Farey sequence of order 4 is 0/1, ¼, 1/3, ½, 2/3, ¾, 1/1.

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