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Emacs calculator evalutes lcm to a negative number

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Message #8 received at 25255 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: peder <at> klingenberg.no (Peder O. Klingenberg)
To: 25255 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25255: Emacs calculator evalutes lcm to a negative number
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2017 11:28:17 +0100

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Bug Poster <bugzilla-mail-box <at> yandex.ru> writes:

> This is formula of Least Common Multiple:
>
> lcm(a, b) = |a * b| / gcd(a, b)

I agree, every textbook I can find defines lcm to return a positive
integer.  Here's a patch, which hopefully someone will apply.

[0001-LCM-is-defined-to-return-a-positive-integer.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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-- 
...Peder...

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