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Entry: A PARTITIONING OF THE NATURAL NUMBERS 1, 2, 3, ..., Q-1 INTO N SETS WHERE Q IS A PRIME, N DIVIDES Q-1 - A43418621
Author: smallfrey - U13668064

A partitioning of the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, ..., q-1 into n sets, q is a prime, n divides q-1 is investigated. Relevance of this partitioning to higher order reciprocity is shown.

Isn't this the same as your other guide entry. I haven't read this one yet because I just want to know first that this isn't the same as your other one. If so then you can just click on edit to change anything.

My appologies I didn't realise that this is in Peer Review. Sorry about that.

Hello smallfrey, I confess I'm at a loss as to what to say to you, except that h2g2 entries are supposed to be understandable to the layman. Perhaps if you browse some of the other entries in Peer Review, you'll see what we are trying to achieve here

GB

GB, "Very little mathematical background is required to read this article;..."

I expected a few raised eyebrows on this one. I looked at a few mathematically oriented Guide Entries before I wrote this; they're mostly historical accounts. (What's to say if you can't be a wee bit technical?) Take the Guide Entry on Fermat's Last Theorem for example; a bunch of technical terms meaningless to a layman are bandied about. At least in my article, the terms are mostly defined and a diligent reader could make sense of it. What's to hurt if someone found a non-trivial article on hootoo? I'm just trying to be entertaining.

OK what I recommend for turning this into a guide entry readable to the layman is

As I have said before it would look much better in GuideML.

Break the numbers and examples away from the writing to use as a diagram instead of it being in the text. I have gotten another person to look at this guide entry and he agrees that it looks to complicating even if you have read it and it is understandable it still looks off putting.

If you go to the h2g2 Maths Lab there will be a link to all the maths edited guide entries where you can see how they are done.

I don't think you need to say at the beginning your first sentence.

The old version is written in "text"; the new version is written in GuideML. Hopefully, you're looking at the GuideML version. I'll see what I can do about breaking out the examples. Thanks!

I am glad to hear that you are using GuideML and goodluck with sorting out the examples.
May I just suggest a few points.

With the title you don't need to have all the words in capital letters because it looks messy. Instead only capitalise the first letters of each word. This also includes the headers in your guide entry.

You don't need to name the first paragraph Introduction but if you need to then name it something like An Introduction to ---.

As I have mentioned before now you are using GuideML you can now make headers so instead of plain letters use headers.

smallfrey: I believe this particular subject matter can be made EG-proper, but it needs to be wholly re-written to do that, and it would need to be spread over at least three seperate Entries.