common divisor

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There is a mathematical explanation for the auditory illusion in my example, sometimes called the missing fundamental: The perceived pitch is the greatest common divisor of the frequencies of the sine waves present.

From Scientific American • Feb. 24, 2018

There was no common divisor for all of the 300 cars shown.

From Time Magazine Archive

The reader probably never has had occasion to compute a greatest common divisor since he left school.

From The Psychology of Arithmetic by Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee)

He ascertained that the one thousand, four hundred and fortieth part of a Spanish dollar was a common divisor for the various currencies.

From Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Lossing, Benson John

The number of votes obtained by each of the lists is divided by the "common divisor" thus:— 8,000 divided by 3,750 = 2 with a remainder of 500.

From Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election by Humphreys, John H.