Steve <stevech1097@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> "It is useful to define gcd(0, 0) = 0 and lcm(0, 0) = 0 because then
> the natural numbers become a complete distributive lattice with gcd
> as meet and lcm as join operation. This extension of the definition
> is also compatible with the generalization for commutative rings
> given below."
>

Ouch. Speak of mathematicians annoying programmers by claiming that 0
isn't divisible by any of [1..], and further implying that 0 is bigger
than all of those, not to mention justifying all that with long words.

Damn them buggers.

0 is divisible by everything. It's "bigger" than all of them with respect to divisibility, not size.

Which you may have known. Your irony was too complex for me :-p

Lukk