[Gllug] wikis

[Pete Ryland]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 04:58:34PM +0100, Jack Bertram wrote:
> * Pete Ryland <pdr at accucard.com> [031009 14:31]:
> > And besides, if everyone coded their queries to the lowest common
> > denominator[*] 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > [*] or, rather, the HCF, for the purists/pedants.
> 
> Can you explain?  What's wrong with lowest common denominator?

See the thread from June:

http://list.ftech.net/pipermail/gllug/2003-June/036050.html

Obviously they're originally mathematical definitions, but if used for our
database example, basically you want to use the most you can that is in
common between them (i.e. highest common factor) rather than all the
features from all of them, but not using twice a feature appearing in two of
them (i.e. the LCM).

Pete

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