The LCM (1 and 87) = ? Calculate the Least Common Multiple, LCM, of the Numbers

The least common multiple
lcm (1; 87) = ?

How is the least common multiple calculated?

By definition, the least common multiple of two numbers is the smallest natural number that is: (1) greater than 0 and (2) a multiple of both numbers.


All the numbers are divisible by 1 (no remainder when dividing the numbers by 1).


87 is a multiple of 1.


The smallest multiple of 87 is the number itself: 87.


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lcm (1; 87) = 87 = 3 × 29

Calculator: calculate the least common multiple, lcm

Calculate the least common multiple of the numbers, LCM:

Method 1: Run the prime factorization of the numbers - then multiply all the prime factors of the numbers, taken by the largest exponents.

Method 2: The Euclidean algorithm:
lcm (a; b) = (a × b) / gcf (a; b)

Method 3: The divisibility of the numbers.

The least (the lowest) common multiple, LCM: the latest 10 calculated values

The least common multiple (lcm). What it is and how to calculate it.

  • The number 60 is a common multiple of the numbers 6 and 15 because 60 is a multiple of 6 (60 = 6 × 10) and also a multiple of 15 (60 = 15 × 4).
  • There are infinitely many common multiples of 6 and 15.
  • If the number "v" is a multiple of the numbers "a" and "b", then all the multiples of "v" are also multiples of "a" and "b".
  • The common multiples of 6 and 15 are the numbers 30, 60, 90, 120, and so on.
  • Out of these, 30 is the smallest, 30 is the least common multiple (lcm) of 6 and 15.
  • Note: The prime factorization of a number: finding the prime numbers that multiply together to give that number.
  • If e = lcm (a, b), then the prime factorization of "e" must contain all the prime factors involved in the prime factorization of "a" and "b" taken by the highest power.
  • Example:
  • 40 = 23 × 5
  • 36 = 22 × 32
  • 126 = 2 × 32 × 7
  • lcm (40, 36, 126) = 23 × 32 × 5 × 7 = 2,520
  • Note: 23 = 2 × 2 × 2 = 8. We are saying that 2 was raised to the power of 3. Or, shorter, 2 to the power of 3. In this example 3 is the exponent and 2 is the base. The exponent indicates how many times the base is multiplied by itself. 23 is the power and 8 is the value of the power:
  • Another example of calculating the least common multiple, lcm:
  • 938 = 2 × 7 × 67
  • 982 = 2 × 491
  • 743 = is a prime number and cannot be broken down into other prime factors
  • lcm (938, 982, 743) = 2 × 7 × 67 × 491 × 743 = 342,194,594
  • If two or more numbers have no common factors (they are coprime), then their least common multiple is calculated by simply multiplying the numbers.
  • Example:
  • 6 = 2 × 3
  • 35 = 5 × 7
  • lcm (6, 35) = 2 × 3 × 5 × 7 = 6 × 35 = 210