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

From: David Van Horn (dvanhorn at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Sat Dec 10 09:41:37 EST 2011

On 12/10/11 9:25 AM, David Van Horn wrote:
> On 12/9/11 3:31 PM, Daniel King wrote:
>> 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 took "x divides y" to mean x/y is an integer.

I meant: y/x is an integer.

David



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