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The generalized form of the tangent formula [Tsai, C.-C. & Collins, D. M. (1972). Acta Cryst. B28, 1601] cannot work except for the trivial case where the generalized form equals the ordinary tangent formula. The T'21 formula is in contradiction with the Harker-Kasper inequality for .