common divisor

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Strategy 1 can be generalized if ƒ and t have a common divisor m that doesn’t divide d:

From Scientific American

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

The conjecture, first proposed in the 1980s, considers a simple equation of three integers, a + b = c, where the three integers do not share any common divisors other than 1.

From New York Times

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

From Project Gutenberg

And when this greatest common divisor of all the classes and all the interests, this neutral, colorless person to whom no one can find any objection, enters the White House does he represent Labor?

From Project Gutenberg