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- ## Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton
- ##
- ## This file is part of Octave.
- ##
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- ## General Public License for more details.
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-
- ## -*- texinfo -*-
- ## @deftypefn {Mapping Function} {} lcm (@var{x}, @code{...})
- ## Compute the least common multiple of the elements elements of @var{x}, or
- ## the list of all the arguments. For example,
- ##
- ## @example
- ## lcm (a1, ..., ak)
- ## @end example
- ##
- ## @noindent
- ## is the same as
- ##
- ## @example
- ## lcm ([a1, ..., ak]).
- ## @end example
- ## @end deftypefn
-
- ## See also: gcd, min, max, ceil, floor.
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Created: 16 September 1994
- ## Adapted-By: jwe
-
- function l = lcm (a, ...)
-
- if (nargin == 0)
- usage ("lcm (a, ...)");
- endif
-
- if (nargin > 1)
- va_start;
- for k = 2:nargin;
- a = [a, (va_arg ())];
- endfor
- endif
-
- if (round (a) != a)
- error ("lcm: all arguments must be integer");
- endif
-
- if (any (a) == 0)
- l = 0;
- else
- a = abs (a);
- l = a (1);
- for k = 1:(length (a) - 1)
- l = l * a(k+1) / gcd (l, a(k+1));
- endfor
- endif
-
- endfunction
-