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)

Totitive, tot′i-tiv, n. a number less than another having with it no common divisor but unity.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

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.