# Copyright (C) 1995 John W. Eaton
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function l = lcm (a, ...)

# usage: lcm (a, ...)
#
# lcm (a) returns the least common multiple of the entries of the
# integer vector a.
# lcm (a1, ..., ak) is the same as lcm([a1, ..., ak]).
  
# Written by KH (Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at) on Sep 16, 1994.

  if (nargin > 1)
    va_start;
    for k = 2:nargin;
      a = [a, (va_arg ())];
    endfor
  endif
  
  if (round (a) != a)
    error ("lcm:  all arguments must be integer");
  endif
  
  if (any (a) == 0)
    l = 0;
  else
    a = abs (a);
    l = a (1);
    for k = 1:(length (a) - 1)
      l = l * a(k+1) / gcd (l, a(k+1));
    endfor
  endif
    
endfunction