- From: William F. Hammond <hammond@csc.albany.edu>
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 20:38:30 -0400 (EDT)
- To: strotman@nu.cs.fsu.edu
- Cc: www-math@w3.org
<gcd/> and <ggT/>:
Language issues aside, is it really sensible to have "gcd" hard-coded
at all?
For integers it's well-defined if one insists, as usual, that it be
positive, and for the ring of polynomials over a field, it's
well-defined if one insists that it be monic. Beyond that it might
just exist as an ideal, i.e., may not have the same type as its
arguments.
I would submit this as an instance where "less is more".
-- Bill
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