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Re: LCM With Variable Number of Arguments

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• Subject: [mg43301] Re: LCM With Variable Number of Arguments
• From: "Steven Shippee" <slshippee at comcast.net>
• Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 04:54:58 -0400 (EDT)
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Regarding LCM (Least Common Multiple) - it works on various elements, but
they must be in brackets, not parenthesis.

For example, you wanted to act on myList = { 2, 3, 4, 5 }

if you change this to LCM[2, 3, 4, 5 ]
Mathematica will return the answer you expect, 60.

Thanks in advance,

Steven Shippee
shippee at jcs.mil
(360) 493-8353


"Mark Lookabaugh" <mlookabaugh at NO_ADS.cox.net> wrote in message
news:bi7nme$p9k$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hi,
>
> I have a list of numbers, and I'd like to get the LCM of all the
> values in the list.  The list isn't always the same length at runtime.
>
> What's the syntax to specify that?
>
> For example:
>
> If I have myList = { 2, 3, 4, 5 }
> I'd like to do something like LCM[myList] and get 60.
>
> but that actually returns { 2, 3, 4, 5 }  (I guess performing LCM on
> each element individually).
>
> How can I get LCM to act on a bunch of values at once?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Mark
>
> --
> Mark Lookabaugh
> mlookabaugh (at) cox.net
> USS Brewton FF-1086 Home Page
> http://www.ussbrewton.com
>

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