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## Copyright (C) 1996 John W. Eaton
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## usage: lcm (a, ...)
##
## lcm (a) returns the least common multiple of the entries of the
## integer vector a.
## lcm (a1, ..., ak) is the same as lcm([a1, ..., ak]).
## 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
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