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0 pointslevel39y ago0 comments

Maybe you're thinking of divisor instead of denominator?

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They're pretty much the same thing, some fractions are expressed as numerator/denominator

Divisor in the sense of greatest common divisor is not the same as a denominator. More to the point, we may indeed care about greatest common divisors, but we also care about least common denominators (i.e. least common multiples)

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0 pointslevel39y ago0 comments

Maybe you're thinking of divisor instead of denominator?

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foota9y ago

They're pretty much the same thing, some fractions are expressed as numerator/denominator

level3OP9y ago

Divisor in the sense of greatest common divisor is not the same as a denominator. More to the point, we may indeed care about greatest common divisors, but we also care about least common denominators (i.e. least common multiples)

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