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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Fa′rey se′quence (fâr′ē),USA pronunciation [Math.]- Mathematicsthe 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, 3⁄4, 1⁄1.
- after English mathematician John Farey (1766–1826), who proposed the terms of the sequence in 1816
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