common multiple in English

noun
1
a number into which each number in a given set may be evenly divided.
In terms familiar to Western high school students, the least common multiple of 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, and 10 is 210.

Use "common multiple" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "common multiple" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "common multiple", or refer to the context using the word "common multiple" in the English Dictionary.

1. The common multiple of 32 pixels constraint is related to alignment.

2. The least common multiple of a and b is equal to their product ab, i.e. lcm(a, b) = ab.

3. The line count of 2880 is also the least common multiple of 480 and 576, the scanline count of NTSC and PAL, respectively.

4. This enables it to fit within a framebuffer of 512 KB (512 × 210 bytes), and the common multiple of 32 pixels constraint is related to alignment.

5. 60 is the smallest number that is divisible by every number from 1 to 6; that is, it is the lowest common multiple of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.