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Re:Nintendo Plunges After Saying Pokemon Go’s Impact Is Limited by noonespecial on Monday July 25, 2016 @01:42AM (#12156715)
Put it on the list with "lowest common denominator" and "begs the question". That battle is lost.
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Re:Nintendo Plunges After Saying Pokemon Go’s Impact Is Limited by danso on Monday July 25, 2016 @02:53AM (#12156943)
I never feel guilty about sending this along: http://begthequestion.info/

Even if language and idioms change, we need more ways to describe fallacies of circular reasoning, not fewer.

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Re:Nintendo Plunges After Saying Pokemon Go’s Impact Is Limited by flukus on Monday July 25, 2016 @02:13AM (#12156800)
Can you show an example of "lowest common denominator" being misused? I've never noticed it so fear I may be guilty of misusing it.
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Re:Nintendo Plunges After Saying Pokemon Go’s Impact Is Limited by tylan1 on Monday July 25, 2016 @02:21AM (#12156821)
The correct version is greatest common denominator. The lowest common denominator is usually 1.
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Re:Nintendo Plunges After Saying Pokemon Go’s Impact Is Limited by level3 on Monday July 25, 2016 @02:43AM (#12156898)
Maybe you're thinking of divisor instead of denominator?
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Re:Nintendo Plunges After Saying Pokemon Go’s Impact Is Limited by foota on Monday July 25, 2016 @02:56AM (#12156956)
They're pretty much the same thing, some fractions are expressed as numerator/denominator
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Re:Nintendo Plunges After Saying Pokemon Go’s Impact Is Limited by level3 on Monday July 25, 2016 @04:16AM (#12157205)
Divisor in the sense of greatest common divisor is not the same as a denominator. More to the point, we may indeed care about greatest common divisors, but we also care about least common denominators (i.e. least common multiples)
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