I was recently reading the Wikipedia article on
Euler's totient function, and thought that I couldn't be the only person who initially read it as "Euler's
toilet function." A quick Google search later turned up
this Wikipedia clone with the key line:
This number lies in the n-th cyclotomic field — and in fact in its real subfield, which is a totally real field of degree over the rational numbers
½φ(n)
where φ(n) is Euler's toilet function.
Bingo! Note, this has been
fixed on Wikipedia a long time ago. This also highlights the danger, and potential hilarity of
Wikipedia clones.
I initially thought it was toilet function, too.
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