CliffM added the comment: I've handled a patch, and extended both lcm and gcd to take an arbitrary number of arguments -- via functools.reduce, as they are both multiplicative (in the first argument).
Also handled the zero case , so lcm(0,0) = 0 = gcd(0,0) Use-case-wise, I do a reasonable amount of number-theoretic work and lcm and gcd are always popping up. If gcd is defined, it's nice to find lcm too. For those less well versed in number-theory, the implementation of lcm is not so obvious, and many end up going down a tedious prime factorisation route -- if they get that far. But is it all worth it in the fractions module ? They should really be in the math module. ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file32084/lcm2.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19237> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
