 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Algebra - 1846 - 374 pages
...«ff»s. — - — CASE VI. 140. To find the least common multiple of two or more numbers. The least common multiple of two or more numbers is the least number which can be divided by each of them without a remainder. The reason for the following rule will be sufficiently... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1846 - 354 pages
...their continued product by any number, will form a new common multiple. (Art. 99. Obs.) 101. 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 6,... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1846 - 402 pages
...numbers * tinued product by any number, will form a new common multiple. (Art. 99. Obs.) 101. 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 commdn multiple of 4 and 6,... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1846 - 362 pages
...numbers be found ? How many common multiples may there be of any given numbers ? 1 0 1 . 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 Davies - Arithmetic - 1847 - 368 pages
...likewise, 12 is a common multiple of 2, 3, 4, and 6, because it is divisible by each of them. The least common multiple of two or more numbers, is the least...which they will separately divide without a remainder. For example, 12 is a common multiple of 2 and 3, but it is not the least common multiple, since 6 is... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1847 - 426 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, 12 is the least common multiple of 4 and... | |
 | Charles Davies - Algebra - 1848 - 300 pages
...way, by finding the least common multiple of the denominators. The least common multiple of several numbers is the least number which they will separately divide without a remainder. When the numbers are small, it may at once be determined by inspection. The manner of finding the least... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1848 - 434 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, 12 is the least common multiple of 4 and... | |
 | Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1850 - 412 pages
...or more numbers, when it can be divided by each of them, separately, without a remainder. The least common multiple of two or more numbers, is the least...which they will separately divide without a remainder. Thus, 6 is the least common multiple of 3 and 2, it being the least number which they will separately... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - 1850 - 350 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,... | |
| |
THE LEAST COMMON MULTIPLE of two or more numbers is the least number which they will separately divide without a remainder. 117. Principles — Operations — and Rule. 1. Any divisible number, is divisible by any prime factor of the exact divisor. 2.... 
