Timeline for Projective coordinates over a non UFD ring
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| Apr 2, 2015 at 23:39 | comment | added | Colin McLarty | Your explanation of why the terminology might have been chosen makes sense. But as you say it is not necessarily a good terminology. This is exactly what beginners often confuse with the correct definition of relative primeness as generating the unit ideal. | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 23:15 | history | edited | Dave Witte Morris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
rephrased my speculation to be less assertive
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| Apr 2, 2015 at 22:53 | history | edited | Dave Witte Morris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 2, 2015 at 22:53 | comment | added | KConrad | I agree this is a strange use of the term "relatively prime." | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 22:48 | vote | accept | Colin McLarty | ||
| Apr 2, 2015 at 22:46 | comment | added | Dave Witte Morris | I haven't seen "relatively prime" used this way before, but I'm not a commutative algebraist, so I don't know. (Personally, I would have chosen some other terminology, perhaps "normalized".) | |
| Apr 2, 2015 at 22:40 | history | answered | Dave Witte Morris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |