Category:Definitions/Canonical Form of Rational Number

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Let $r \in \Q$ be a rational number.

The canonical form of $r$ is the expression $\dfrac p q$, where:

$r = \dfrac p q: p \in \Z, q \in \Z_{>0}, p \perp q$

where $p \perp q$ denotes that $p$ and $q$ have no common divisor except $1$.