Re: [Edu-sig] A footnote in time saves nine

[Kirby Urner]

In:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2000-August/000599.html

I often talk about "relative primes" i.e. two numbers with no factors in common.

At some point, a poster to sci.math took me to task for proffering "relative primes" as a term, since the regular usage is "relatively prime." Two numbers are "relatively prime" not "relative primes."

Yeah, sci.math is like that. :-D

Luckily, you can call them "coprime" instead, and not even piss _me_ off <wink>: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprime