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Re: [Bug-gnulib] lcm
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: [Bug-gnulib] lcm |
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Wed, 3 Nov 2004 12:52:01 +0100 |
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Paul Eggert wrote:
> I suspect that in practice, L.C.M. algorithms tend to be specialized
> for their application, due to the problem of overflow.
Yes. And in other cases, such as GNU gettext's CL format string analyzer,
the code uses
a / gcd (a, b) [= lcm (a, b) / b]
and never needs the lcm (a, b) on its own.
Bruno