Python Program to find the LCM of two numbers

Hello everyone, welcome back to programminginpython.com. Here I am going to tell a simple logic by which we can find the LCM of two numbers in python.

LCM means Least Common Multiple, for a given 2 numbers we need to find the least common multiple for them.

Let’s take an example of 3 and 5, here I will find the LCM of those 2 numbers.

Multiples of 3: 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24…

Multiples of 5: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30….

Now we find the first number which is found in both the multiples and it is clear that 15 is that number, and the LCM(3, 5) will be 15.

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Program on Github

LCM of 2 numbers – Code Visualization

Task

To find LCM of 2 numbers

Approach

• Read two input numbers using input().
• Find the minimum of 2 numbers, using min() function and store the value in numbers_min variable.
• Now run a while loop and check whether both numbers are divisible by the numbers_min variable which we got in the previous step.
  • if both numbers are divisible by numbers_min print the value as LCM and break the loop
  • if not, increment numbers_min value and continue while loop.

Program

__author__ = 'Avinash'

num1 = int(input("Enter first number: \t"))
num2 = int(input("Enter second number: \t"))

numbers_min = min(num1, num2)

while(1):
    if(numbers_min % num1 == 0 and numbers_min % num2 == 0):
        print("LCM of two number is: ", numbers_min)
        break
    numbers_min += 1

Program on Github

Output

Program on Github

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