some one said something about highist comon factor
2007-09-17 08:10:26 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
The HCF of two numbers is the highest number that is a factor of both of them.
2007-09-17 08:15:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, its the highest common factor. It's basically the highest number that two seperate numbers can be divided by. So the HCF of 12 and 8 would be 4 because it's the highest number that 12 and 8 can be divided by.
2007-09-17 15:15:53 · answer #2 · answered by jb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take number 12 and 27
both can be divided by 3 and no higher number.
Then hcf is 3 for the numbers 12 and 27.
Take more ocatually: 42 and 144
42= 2 x 3 x7
144= 2 x 3 x 24= 2 x 3 x 3 x2 x2 x2
Higest common factor 2x3=6
2007-09-17 15:54:37 · answer #3 · answered by anordtug 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The HCF in mathematics is the highest common factor between two or more numbers.
2007-09-17 15:46:05 · answer #4 · answered by lil1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In mathematics, the greatest common divisor (gcd), sometimes known as the greatest common factor (gcf) or highest common factor (hcf), of two non-zero integers, is the largest positive integer that divides both numbers without remainder.
The greatest common divisor of a and b is written as gcd(a, b), or sometimes simply as (a, b). For example, gcd(12, 18) = 6, gcd(â4, 14) = 2 and gcd(5, 0) = 5. Two numbers are called coprime or relatively prime if their greatest common divisor equals 1. For example, 9 and 28 are relatively prime.
2007-09-17 15:14:46 · answer #5 · answered by DON 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
hcf is the highest common factor of two or more numbers...so if you list the factors of 24 and 32 to find their hcf then you would list (1,2,3,4,6,8,12,24) and (1,2,4,8,16,32) respectively and you can see that the highest number that is in both lists (i.e. the hcf) is 8...hope that helps...
2007-09-17 18:06:09 · answer #6 · answered by arsenal rule 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, highest common factor.
Example: HCF(12,18) = 6
12 = 2 * 2 * 3
18 = 2 * 3 * 3
2007-09-17 15:15:03 · answer #7 · answered by PMP 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
highest common factor, basically the hightest number that a number is divisible by
2007-09-17 15:18:43 · answer #8 · answered by Alice K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
highest common factor
2007-09-17 16:17:24 · answer #9 · answered by JoRdZ 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just looked it up and there are several HCF's
suggest you check the link and I hope it helps
2007-09-17 15:16:37 · answer #10 · answered by Tom M 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋