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by **zazeem** on Sat Nov 20, 2010 7:08 pm

Hi i was wondering how to find the lcm of (3^19, 3^257) i know you have to get the smallest multiple of both i believe the answer is 3 as this appears to be a trick problem

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by **FWT** on Sun Nov 21, 2010 11:24 am

Are you finding the LCM of the numbers 3^19 and 3^257, of 19 and 257, or of 3 and 3?

by **Martingale** on Mon Nov 22, 2010 1:56 am

zazeem wrote:Hi i was wondering how to find the lcm of (3^19, 3^257) i know you have to get the smallest multiple of both i believe the answer is 3 as this appears to be a trick problem

$LCM(3^{\tiny{19}},3^{\tiny{257}})=3^{\tiny{257}}$

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