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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 19:53:45 GMT
Reply-To:	mattdm@mattdmANTISPAM.org
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote: > > <URL:http://quotes-r-us.org> > > <URL:http://www.quotes-r-us.org/plain/> > Cool example! Very fast! BTW, are those the canonical forms of the URL? > How come the second one has a www prefix and the first one doesn't? Uh, I think that'd be "inconsistency in my bookmark file". For a while, we were pedantic about the something-can't-be-both-a-host-and-a-domain rule, but then we decided to give in to the New World Order of web/dns. *grin* -- 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)
(...) Aha -- I think that's a key point! In numbers and divisors and factors, the isomorphic example to "simplest thing common to all" is probably the lowest common factor (always 1) or lowest common prime factor between a set of numbers. 1 would be (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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