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There is really no such thing as a "greatest common multiple". Once you find the least common multiple of a set of numbers, you can keep adding the LCM to itself over and over again. Each new number you get will be a common multiple of your set of numbers, but each new number will always be larger than the previous. This means that you can keep adding while the number approaches infinity and you will still never find a greatest multiple.

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There is no greatest common multiple of two numbers. For whatever number you come up with I can always add the lowest common multiple of the numbers to get an even higher common multiple.

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The greatest common multiple for any set of integers is infinite.

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