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Walterpachl (talk | contribs) (→errors in programs: gcd(0,0)=0 sounds strange to me.) |
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::: This gets into the definition of GCD. What you are proposing here -- that 0 GCD 0 be an exceptional case -- would mean that GCD is not associative. Meanwhile, Boolean algebra/rings uses an associative definition for GCD. So I guess I do not feel motivated to adopt your definition. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 17:29, 17 August 2012 (UTC) |
::: This gets into the definition of GCD. What you are proposing here -- that 0 GCD 0 be an exceptional case -- would mean that GCD is not associative. Meanwhile, Boolean algebra/rings uses an associative definition for GCD. So I guess I do not feel motivated to adopt your definition. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 17:29, 17 August 2012 (UTC) |
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:::: It hurts to read that a divisor (how great or common it may be) should be zero when |
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dividing by zero is among the worst things you can do. As for me, I rather go for undefined! --[[User:Walterpachl|Walterpachl]] 20:47, 17 August 2012 (UTC) |
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