27 Nov
2013
27 Nov
'13
4:08 p.m.
On 27/11/2013 21:30, Bill Gosper wrote:
If your developers are leery of GCD[1,π]→0, I think I can muster authoritative corroborators, if not corroborative literature. Motivation: The gcd of two real quantities is the largest quantity that goes into each a whole number of times.
I'm unconvinced. In this context (multiplicative rather than additive) 0 is *larger* than everything else, not *smaller*, no? And 0 emphatically doesn't "go into" anything "a whole number of times". -- g