Timeline for Applications of the GCD metric
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| Feb 7, 2020 at 6:26 | comment | added | user6671 | How do you construct the embedding $\phi$? | |
| Sep 20, 2011 at 6:54 | history | edited | Suvrit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added extra question
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| Sep 19, 2011 at 18:41 | answer | added | user9072 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 19, 2011 at 16:55 | history | edited | Suvrit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
edited the question a bit to clarify its scope
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| Sep 19, 2011 at 16:30 | comment | added | Emil Jeřábek | Without the outer square root (which does no harm to the triangle inequality), the expression amounts to a weighted sum of distances measured by $p$-adic valuations: $d(m,n)^2=\frac12\sum_p|v_p(m)-v_p(n)|\log p$. This should explain why it is a metric. | |
| Sep 19, 2011 at 16:18 | history | edited | Suvrit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
fixed silly oversight!
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| Sep 19, 2011 at 16:09 | history | asked | Suvrit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |