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* Problem - many of the paragraphs are lacking citations or, if having them, there are no citations covering many sentences. See the end of the section "Greatest common divisor" for just one example. This needs to be fixed before it can pass FAC. [[User:Ottava Rima|Ottava Rima]] ([[User talk:Ottava Rima|talk]]) 23:45, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

**If you are referring to the subsection that begins, "Three related mathematical methods are used often in the arguments below..." That is an explanatory paragraph explaining the article elements, in particular, explaining what typical math proof method will be used further down. That does not require citation. Looking through the article, I see plentiful citations. I suspect what Ottava Rima is referring is to paragraphs where the initial statement might be sourced, but further explanation or example is not (although it is simply a further explication of what the initial sentence said). I wonder if Ottava Rima is familiar with [[WP:SCG]], since I cannot see how the article fails the SCG. I think there is some confusion that would be remedied by reading "Examples, derivations and restatements" section of the SCG in particular. --[[User:C S|C S]] ([[User talk:C S|talk]]) 23:58, 27 April 2009 (UTC)