OK, I know I am not supposed to use actual examples, but you will get a good laugh out of this: phrase "greatest common factor" was disallowed because of using word "greatest". God bless mathematically illiterate!
PhraSEOlogy
12:16 am on Oct 29, 2003 (gmt 0)
Life is full of exasperating examples like this. Perhaps "above the expected average common factor" would be a more acceptable and descriptive - NOT!
Algebrator
12:32 am on Oct 29, 2003 (gmt 0)
Yeah, like in .... find the AEACF of the following expressions...
