Project Euler | Problem 5 | Smallest Multiple

Problem Description :

2520 is the smallest number that can be divided by each of the numbers from 1 to 10 without any remainder. What is the smallest positive number that is evenly divisible by all of the numbers from 1 to 20?

Project Euler Problem 5

Concept :

Do you know how we got 2520? Answer is very simple if we will try to get LCM(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) then it is 2520. It means we have to find LCM of all the number from 1 to 20. Now question is how to get LCM of two number in Java? So check below algorithm.

Algorithm :

We have to perform following steps for finding LCM of two numbers.

1. Get HCM of two numbers because LCM * HCM = product of two numbers. If we will get HCM then we can easily find LCM also.
2. By Euclidean algorithm we can find HCM.
3. We got HCM, so LCM = (product of two numbers) / HCM.

Java Program :

Output :

Output - Project Euler Problem 5 

References :

https://projecteuler.net/problem=5

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science/cryptography/modarithmetic/a/the-euclidean-algorithm

http://www.math.com/school/subject1/lessons/S1U3L3DP.html

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Tags : Project Euler Problem 5, Solution in Java, Smallest Multiple, LCM, HCM, if else statement, while loop, for loop.

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