switch recipe?

[Alex Martelli]

Mark McEahern wrote:

> [Alex Martelli]
>> I'm not sure what an lcd is in this context, but I did mean to
>> loop least-common-multiple(m, n) times, treating the two sets
>> as equivalent.  So I guess I had misunderstood the specs!
> 
> I seem to have a penchant for maligning concepts.  Thanks for the
> correction
> on denominator --> multiple.  Would it make sense to say lcd (least common
> denominator) is a conceptual subset of lcm (least common multiple)?  If

Hmmm, the lcd of minimal-terms fractions A and B is the lcm of A's
denominator and B's denominator, right?  Guess it IS a "conceptual
subclass" in that you have to add the concepts of denominator and
minimal-terms:-).


Alex