Bug 118091 - lib/lcm.c weird misimplement lowest common multiple algorithm
Summary: lib/lcm.c weird misimplement lowest common multiple algorithm
Status: NEW
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Component: Other (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 high
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Reported: 2016-05-12 06:15 UTC by Victor Mineev
Modified: 2016-05-12 06:18 UTC (History)
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Description Victor Mineev 2016-05-12 06:15:36 UTC 
The only known LCM algorithm is factoring number. Look at lib/lcm.c, evaluation of 'a / gcd(a, b) * b' does error: example a = 2, b = 4, 2 / 2 * 4 = 4 where the LCM(2, 4) equal to 2. Let delete misimplemented junk from kernel sources.
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