 | Geography - 1867 - 964 pages
...remainder, it ia said to be a measure of it, and the latter number is said to be a multiple of the first. A common multiple of two or more numbers is a number...can be divided by each of them without a remainder. It will clearly be a composite number, of which each of tho given numbers must bo a factor, for it... | |
 | Charles Butler - Mathematics - 1814 - 540 pages
...greatest common measure is the greatest number possible that will divide each without remainder. / 1C4. A common multiple of two or more numbers is a number which each of them will divide without remainder; and the least common multiple is the least number that... | |
 | George G. Carey - Arithmetic - 1818 - 602 pages
...fraction is a number, which will divide both the numerator and denominator, without a remainder. 14. A common multiple, of two or more numbers, is a number •which is divisible by the numbers of which it is a multiple, without a remainder. 15. The least common multiple... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1832 - 186 pages
...fractions are said to have a common denominator, when the denominator of each is the same number (25). 9. A common multiple of two or more numbers is a number, which may be divided by each of those numbers without a remainder. The least common multiple is the least... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - Arithmetic - 1832 - 186 pages
...fractions are said to have a common denominator, when the denominator of ej£h is the same number (25). 9. A common multiple of two or more numbers is a number, which may be divided by each of those numbers without a remainder. The least common multiple is the least... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - Arithmetic - 1837 - 266 pages
...more fractions are said to have a common denominator, when the denominator of each is the same. 8. A common multiple of two or more numbers, is a number which may be divided by each of those numbers without a remainder. 9. The least common multiple of two or... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - Arithmetic - 1841 - 324 pages
...more fractions are said to have a common denominator, when the denominator of each is the same. 9. A Common Multiple of two or more numbers, is a number which may be divided by each of those numbers without a remainder. 10. The Least Common Multiple of two or... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1846 - 362 pages
...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 6, for it is the least number which can be exactly divided by them.... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1846 - 354 pages
...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, for it is the least number which can be exactly divided by them.... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Algebra - 1846 - 374 pages
...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 obvious without farther illustration. KULE.... | |
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A common multiple of two or more numbers, is a number which can be divided by each of them without a remainder. Thus, 12 is a common multiple of 2, 3, and 4 ; 15 is a common multiple of 3 and 5, &c. 
