Convention for describing quotient of rational number

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Say I have an arbitrary rational $r = p/q$ and want to specify that this is in reduced form. Is the convention just to say that the fraction is in reduced form, or is there another way?

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It should be enough to state that the representation is in reduced form. If you want a more formal description, you could write that the condition $\gcd(p, q) = 1$ holds.