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: Now, the term ''accidental cancellation of fractions'' sounds like a term that most people might know what it means or intuits. I'll also add this term to the task preamble. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 09:50, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
:: Not having heard of it doesn't mean it's not the more correct name. Intuition has little to do with it. If you had never heard of the term Humble numbers, how would you intuit what they were? Lets do an experiment. Google "Fraction reduction", "Anomalous cancellation", and "Accidental cancellation" and see which has the overwhelming majority of relevant links. It would just be more accurate to retitle the page "Fraction reduction by anomalous cancellation" or "Fraction reduction by accidental cancellation" or "Accidental cancellation of fractions" to make it clear that it is not traditional fraction reduction. (And I know that the task preamble makes that clear, but web searches will not be so discerning.) --[[User:Thundergnat|Thundergnat]] ([[User talk:Thundergnat|talk]]) 10:05, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
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