 | Thomas Grainger Hall - 1853 - 268 pages
...numbers. Thus, 36 is a common multiple of 9 and 4 : since it is divisible both by 9 and 4. The least common multiple of two or more numbers is the least number which is divisible by each of the numbers. Thus the least common multiple of 2, 3, 8, and 12, is 24 ; that... | |
 | Daniel Adams - 1853 - 108 pages
...(multiplying both terms by 6) = ¿f, and|(X4) = fî; orf (ХЗ)=Д, and |(X2)=^, Ans. тT »3. NOTE. The least common multiple of two or more numbers, is the least number which contains all the prime factors of those numbers. Hence, tojlnd the least common multiple, or common... | |
 | Royal Military Academy, Woolwich - Mathematics - 1853 - 476 pages
...of two or more numbers is one which contains each of them an exact number of times ; and the least common multiple of two or more numbers is the least number which contains each of them an exact number of times. Thus 15 is a multiple of 3 or 5 ; 24 is a common multiple... | |
 | Charles D. Lawrence - Arithmetic - 1854 - 336 pages
...number is one which is exactly divisible by the given number ; thus, 15 is a multiple of 5. 6. The Leaat Common Multiple of two or more numbers, is the least number which is exactly divisible by each of them ; thus, 24 is the least common multiple of 3, 12, anrl 8. •1.... | |
 | 1856 - 418 pages
...for, multi< plying their continued product by any number, will form a new oommon multiple. The least common multiple of two or more numbers, is the least number which can be divided by each of them without a remainder. Thus, 12 is the least common multiple of 4 and... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - 1857 - 342 pages
...numbers, is a number which may be divided by each of those numbers without a remainder. 10. The Least Common Multiple of two or more numbers, is the least number which may be divided by those numbers, without a remainder. Thus 8 is the least common multiple of 8, 4,... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - Arithmetic - 1857 - 328 pages
...numbers, is a number which may be divided by each of those* numbers without a remainder. 10. The Least Common Multiple of two or more numbers, is the least number which may be divided by those numbers, without a remainder. Thus 8 is the least common multiple of 8, 4,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1858 - 346 pages
...greatest common divisor of 945, 1560, and 22683 ? LEAST COMMON DIVIDEND. 140. The least common dividend of two or more numbers is the least number which they will separately divide without a remainder.* NOTES. — 1. If a dividend is exactly divisible by a divisor, it can be resolved into tyro factors,... | |
 | Dana Pond Colburn - 1858 - 288 pages
...MULTIPLE of two or more numbers is any num-. ber which contains them all as factors. (c.) The LEAST COMMON MULTIPLE of two or more numbers is the least number which contains them all as factors. (d.) From these definitions, and the principles previously established,... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1860 - 440 pages
...continued product by any number, will form a new common multiple. (Art. 161. Prop. 14.) 175. The least common multiple of two or more numbers, is the least number which can be divided by each of them without a remainder. Thus, 1 2 is the least common multiple of 4 and... | |
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The least common multiple of two or more numbers, is the least number which they will separately divide without a remainder. 
