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common divisor

noun

Mathematics.
  1. a number that is a submultiple of all the numbers of a given set.


common divisor

noun

  1. another name for common factor
“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

common divisor

  1. A number that is a factor of two or more numbers. For example, 3 is a common divisor of both 9 and 15.
  2. Also called common factor
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Word History and Origins

Origin of common divisor1

First recorded in 1840–50
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Strategy 1 can be generalized if ƒ and t have a common divisor m that doesn’t divide d:

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There is a mathematical explanation for the auditory illusion in my example, sometimes called the missing fundamental: The perceived pitch is the greatest common divisor of the frequencies of the sine waves present.

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The conjecture, first proposed in the 1980s, considers a simple equation of three integers, a + b = c, where the three integers do not share any common divisors other than 1.

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The reader probably never has had occasion to compute a greatest common divisor since he left school.

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The greatest common divisor of all the minorities that go to making a winning national combination must be neutral, he must be colorless, he must not know that his soul is his own.

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