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Re: Greatest Common Divisor

Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>

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From: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
To: Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2020-01-20T20:13:12Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 18:52, Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>
> On 20/01/2020 11:28, Dean Rasheed wrote:
> >
> > +       <entry>
> > +        least common multiple &mdash; the smallest strictly positive number
> > +        that is an integer multiple of both inputs; returns
> > <literal>0</literal>
> > +        if either input is zero
> > +       </entry>
>
> In that case should lcm be "...that is an integral multiple..." since
> the numeric version will return numeric?
>

So "integral multiple" instead of "integer multiple"? I think I'm more
used to the latter, but I'm happy with either.

Regards,
Dean

Commits

  1. Add functions gcd() and lcm() for integer and numeric types.