GCD(0,0)
- From: "Leroy Quet" <qqquet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 Dec 2005 12:30:09 -0800
I notice that these math-controversy threads often get massive
numbers of replies.
(While more serious math posts and my games, for example,
hardly ever get any replies.)
So I will post this troll-bait flame-bait message to sci.math
because I always wanted to start one of those huge threads.
:)
For n = any positive integer, it is known that
GCD(n,n) = n
and
GCD(0,n) = n.
(GCD is Greatest Common Divisor, of course.)
But what is, if there is any defined value,
GCD(0,0)?
It certainly isn't 0 (which would fit the pattern above if
n=0), is it?
I would think that infinity would work as well as anything.
Or is GCD(0,0) simply undefined, like 0/0?
thanks, (half seriously, oh well, 3/4 seriously)
Leroy Quet
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