[Edu-sig] A footnote in time saves nine

[Tim Peters]

[Kirby Urner]
> In:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2000-August/000599.html
>
> I often talk about "relative primes" i.e. two numbers with no factors in
> common.
>
> At some point, a poster to sci.math took me to task for proffering
> "relative primes" as a term, since the regular usage is "relatively prime."
> Two numbers are "relatively prime" not "relative primes."
>
> Yeah, sci.math is like that.  :-D

Luckily, you can call them "coprime" instead, and not even piss _me_ off <wink>:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprime