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least common multiple

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noun

Say it like: Lee-st -com-mon- mu-lti-ple

The correct spelling is least common multiple. The smallest positive integer which is divisible by (equivalently, is an integer multiple of) each of a specified finite set of integers. For example: "120 is the least common multiple of 60, 8 and 15."

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120 is the least common multiple of 60, 8 and 15.

Definition

noun

  1. 1.The smallest positive integer which is divisible by (equivalently, is an integer multiple of) each of a specified finite set of integers.

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