 | Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1870 - 204 pages
...divide it. A Common Divisor of two or more numbers is a number that will exactly divide each of them. The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will exactly divide each of them. Art. 49. A Prime Number is one that has no divisor except itself... | |
 | Emerson Elbridge White - Arithmetic - 1870 - 350 pages
...divide it. A Common Divisor of two or more numbers is a number that will exactly divide each of them. The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will exactly divide each of them. 66. PRINCIPLES. — 1. Every prime factor, and every product of any... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Arithmetic - 1871 - 350 pages
...common divisor of the 12 and the 36, is also a divisor of the 48. THE GREATEST COMMON DIVISOR. 123, The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will divide each of them without a remainder. Thus 6 is the greatest common divisor of 12, 18, and... | |
 | Daniel Barnard Hagar - Arithmetic - 1871 - 220 pages
...that number. 131. A Common Divisor of two or more numbers is any factor common to those numbers. 132. The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest factor common to those numbers. 133. Principle. — Tlie greatest common factor, or divi~ sor, of two... | |
 | Joseph Ray - Arithmetic - 1866 - 212 pages
...86. A Common Divisor of two or more numbers is any number that will div'de each without a remainder. The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will divide each without a remainder. NOTE. — Numbers may have several common divisors, but only... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1872 - 234 pages
...which will Jivide two or more numbers without a remainder. 13. What is the Greatest Common Divisor? The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers, is the greatest number that will divide each of them without a remainder. REMARKS.—1. A common divisor of two or more numbers... | |
 | Henry Beadman Bryant, Emerson Elbridge White, Corydon Giles Stowell - Business mathematics - 1872 - 576 pages
...$32, $60. 9. " 2 ft,, 8 in., 10 in., 1 ft. 10. " 7, 9, 11, 23. 176. The Greatest Common Measure, or Greatest Common Divisor, of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will exactly measure each of them. Abbreviation, GCD 1. What is the GCD of 24, 32, 80 ? 2. " " " 40,... | |
 | Joseph Ray - 1856 - 400 pages
...a number that will divide each of them without a remain- ' der; 3 is a common divisor of 12 and 18. The greatest common divisor of two or more numbers, is the greatest number that will divide each without a remainder; 6 is the greatest common divisor of 12 and 18. REMA-RK. — 1.... | |
 | David White Goodrich - Ready-reckoners - 1873 - 220 pages
...5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97, 101, etc. The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number which will divide them all without a remainder. The Least Common Multiple of two or more numbers is... | |
 | Edward Olney - Algebra - 1873 - 354 pages
...terra arising in Geometry. 109. A Common Divisor is a common integral factor of two or more numbers. The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest common integral factor, or the product of all the common integral factors. Common Measure and Common... | |
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The Greatest Common Divisor of two or more numbers is the greatest number that will exactly divide each of them. Thu4, 18 is the greatest, common divisor of 36 and 54, since it is the greatest number that will divide each of them without a remainder. 
