Talk:Lowest common denominator

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Needs more on usage applying to media. ReverendG 20:24, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Not math at all?

The article equates LCD with LCM. But a denominator is not the same thing as a multiple; in fact, they are opposite (or, more precisely, inverse). Has anyone ever heard this term in math? I have heard it only in colloquial conversation. (I think people really mean "greatest common denominator", but they substitute "least" because "greatest" sounds big.) So I propose that this article explicitly state that the concept is not mathematical at all, but a colloquial misuse of math jargon. Joshua Davis 21:09, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I withdraw the above complaint! Somehow I did not notice the presence of fractions, which makes the concept quite meaningful indeed. Please ignore. Joshua Davis 03:35, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I see no need to withdraw this complaint, which seems entirely correct to me in every way. Let me be the first to reinstate it. I am also annoyed that the entry under "greatest common denominator" says that it is a meaningless phrase! It is the correct phrase. ( Dr. John Krane ) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.112.82.28 (talk) 17:33, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup and stub tags

Feureau, you added a cleanup tag without explaining why on the talk page, and in this case I don't understand it. But I made some minor changes; is it cleaned up now? The grammar/spelling/writing are all fine; the concept is clearly defined, using simple language, and then examples are given, and then the greater social impact is even addressed. What's your issue?

And as for the stub tag: What do you think this article is missing? The LCD is not a large or complicated topic in math, so I don't see it having an article much longer than this. But perhaps I'm unimaginative. Joshua Davis 11:53, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Education reform

The source is Connected Mathematics 2nd edition, Bits and Pieces I. Is that sufficient as a source or do you need photocopies of the actual book? --Bachcell (talk) 23:03, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the source. For a proper citation of the source (so the general reader of Wikipedia's LCD article knows what book is being referred to, precisely) see Wikipedia:Citation templates. However, overriding a proper citation is the consideration that the LCD article is not the place to fight a cultural war about education reform or not. The LCD article should deal with the mathematical concept of LCD. The LCD concept is not central to education reform. (If I understand your position re. ER correctly, it seems that you should be interested first of all in a full explanantion of the LCD concept. Inserting the issue of ER only takes away from the explanation of the LCD concept.) Cheers. -- Iterator12n Talk 01:11, 30 November 2007 (UTC)