[racket-dev] feature request: gcd, lcm for rationals

From: Daniel King (danking at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 9 15:31:40 EST 2011

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 15:27, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> What does "divides" even mean in Q?  I think we need David to explain
> what his extension of GCD and LCM means here, in that "divisors" and
> "multiples" are fairly trivial things in Q.

I don't suppose to understand all the math on this page, but I think
it uses the same definition that dvh is using.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GreatestCommonDivisor.html

-- 
Dan King
College of Computer and Information Science
Northeastern University



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