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****Proteins is responsible for the "imagine". :-) In any case, [[WP:MOSMATH]] is ok with limited usage of this type. If MOSMATH is inconsistent with FA, that's a shame. Feel free to edit my version. --[[User:C S|C S]] ([[User talk:C S|talk]]) 08:02, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
*****I don't think there is a problem with such language (particularly when explaining examples) - it is used by professional mathematicians. If it is good enough for them, it should be good enough for us. [[User:Awadewit|Awadewit]] ([[User talk:Awadewit|talk]]) 09:04, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
*'''Minor suggestion for improvement.''' The animated gif [[:File:Euclidean algorithm 1071 462.gif]] is a very nice idea, especially for readers with limited math knowledge. But it would be more useful if the dimensions of the successive rectangles were given. (Hope you see what I mean) They're given in the caption but that forces the reader to look at the image, go to the caption, return to the image and pedagogically I think that's suboptimal. Also I think it's one of these rare cases where it makes sense to point out on the caption that clicking on the image will enlarge it (many readers are unaware of this). [[User:Pichpich|Pichpich]] ([[User talk:Pichpich|talk]]) 16:11, 1 May 2009 (UTC)▼
▲*'''Minor suggestion for improvement.''' The animated gif [[:File:Euclidean algorithm 1071 462.gif]] is a very nice idea, especially for readers with limited math knowledge. But it would be more useful if the dimensions of the successive rectangles were given. (Hope you see what I mean) They're given in the caption but that forces the reader to look at the image, go to the caption, return to the image and pedagogically I think that's suboptimal. Also I think it's one of these rare cases where it makes sense to point out on the caption that clicking on the image will enlarge it (many readers are unaware of this). [[User:Pichpich|Pichpich]] ([[User talk:Pichpich|talk]]) 16:11, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
::Those are both good suggestions, Pichpich, thank you. Although they may be more difficult to implement elegantly than you imagine, I'll work on them. Originally I left the numbers out of the animation on purpose, because I wanted it to be usable on other Wikipedias that do not use our digits, such as the Arabic Wikipedia. [[User:Proteins|Proteins]] ([[User talk:Proteins|talk]]) 10:25, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
*'''Support'''. I really like this article. It's comprehensive, well-written, interesting, and informative. I do have one minor quibble, although I'm not sure anything can be done about it, and it's that at least on my laptop screen some of the formulae are difficult to read. For instance, in
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