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Subject:	Re: Lowest Common Denominator (was: Re: Lego.com - new look)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Sun, 17 Oct 1999 19:48:28 GMT
Reply-To:	mattdm@&Spamcake&mattdm.org
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote: > (smallest) denominator common to both or all." In other words, designing > for or accommodating the "lowest common denominator" really means (in the > non-math meaning) designing for or accommodating "even the least common > (i.e., most infrequent) common denominator." I'm not sure that makes sense. By definition, all things that are in common occur the same amount -- i.e. everywhere. 'Cause otherwise, it wouldn't be common. Another possible alternative phrase might be "broadest common denominator"... -- Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/

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		Re: Lowest Common Denominator (was: Re: Lego.com - new look)
(...) Yet another definition clash -- LOL! -- this just keeps getting confusinger and confusinger. Now I'm totally confusticated. :) In common English usage, does the phrase "common denominator" mean "denominators in common" (common within some (...) (27 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		Re: Lowest Common Denominator (was: Re: Lego.com - new look)
(...) Oh...sorry, I left out the "limit as n approaches infinity" part. ;-) (...) I wonder that too. At first glance, they seem very incompatible. I'm not an English scholar, so I can't really say. But I think what may have happened is that the (...) (27 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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