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:::Hi Gerard, Maybe the epigraph should be left out. It too could be thought of as something best left to the talk page. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 23:28, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
:::: Epigraphs are not meant to a discussion point (as I understand its use), they are to provide a relevant and a different perspective on the subject. Epigraphs can always be omitted, but they do make a point. Here are two examples from the books ''Frankenstein'' and ''To Kill a Mockingbird''; in my opinion, the books are better for it.
Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould me Man? Did I solicit thee / From darkness to promote me?
— John Milton, ''Paradise Lost'' (in Mary Shelley's ''Frankenstein'')
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
— Charles Lamb, ''The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple'' (in Harper Lee's ''To Kill a Mockingbird'')
(''Dune'' also had some very poignant epigraphs as well.)
:::: I have never read responses (or opinions) on the above books on whether or not that those epigraphs should/shouldn't be included in the respective books, or even a discussion on they being appropriate (or not), or even the merits of the quoted texts. We could discuss the merits of Gauss' opinion, but that wasn't the point of the epigraph. When one discusses the book ''Frankenstein'', John Milton's quote is <u>never</u> talked about (well, except for here). I never thought that adding an epigraph would ruffle so many feathers. I had thought that the collegiate reader's minds on Rosetta Code would appreciate a relevant quote. To move the epigraph to the discussion page would surely distract from the Rosetta Code task of chowla numbers. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 00:28, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
==Large computations==
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