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Proposition: 7.35: Least Common Multiple Divides Common Multiple

(Proposition 35 from Book 7 of Euclid's “Elements”)

If two numbers (both) measure some number then the least (number) measured by them will also measure the same (number).

• For let two numbers, $A$ and $B$, (both) measure some number $CD$, and (let) $E$ (be the) least (number measured by both $A$ and $B$).
• I say that $E$ also measures $CD$.

Modern Formulation

see least common multiple.

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1. Fitzpatrick, Richard: Euclid's "Elements of Geometry"

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1. Prime.mover and others: "Pr∞fWiki", https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page, 2016