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least common multiple

American  

noun

Mathematics.
  1. lowest common multiple.


least common multiple British  

noun

  1. another name for lowest common multiple

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of least common multiple

First recorded in 1815–25

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Find the least common multiple of 24 and 40.

From Textbooks • May 6, 2020

Our second method to find the least common multiple of two numbers is to use The Prime Factors Method.

From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020

Make lists of the first few multiples of 15 and of 20, and use them to find the least common multiple.

From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020

Two methods are used most often to find the least common multiple and we will look at both of them.

From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020

He even nailed some pretty dense math problems like, “Find the least common multiple of six, eight, and sixteen.”

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein

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