Re: Greatest Common Divisor

From: Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Vik Fearing <vik(dot)fearing(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Greatest Common Divisor
Date: 2020-01-20 20:13:12
Message-ID: CAEZATCVYfH3eGLtLonriE1dSFMmr-4p0jre7VRYaYM2bQ0hZzg@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 18:52, Vik Fearing <vik(dot)fearing(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On 20/01/2020 11:28, Dean Rasheed wrote:
> >
> > + <entry>
> > + least common multiple &mdash; the smallest strictly positive number
> > + that is an integer multiple of both inputs; returns
> > <literal>0</literal>
> > + if either input is zero
> > + </entry>
>
> In that case should lcm be "...that is an integral multiple..." since
> the numeric version will return numeric?
>

So "integral multiple" instead of "integer multiple"? I think I'm more
used to the latter, but I'm happy with either.

Regards,
Dean

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