How to find the least common multiple of a range of numbers?

Question

Given an array of two numbers, let them define the start and end of a range of numbers. For example, [2,6] means the range 2,3,4,5,6. I want to write javascrip

Answer 1

This is a non-recursive version of your original approach.

function smallestCommons(arr) {
  // Sort the array
  arr = arr.sort(function (a, b) {return a - b}); // numeric comparison;
  var min = arr[0];
  var max = arr[1];

  var numbers = [];
  var count = 0;

  //Here push the range of values into an array
  for (var i = min; i <= max; i++) {
    numbers.push(i);
  }
  //Here freeze a multiple candidate starting from the biggest array value - call it j
  for (var j = max; j <= 1000000; j+=max) {

    //I increase the denominator from min to max
    for (var k = arr[0]; k <= arr[1]; k++) {

      if (j % k === 0) { // every time the modulus is 0 increase a counting 
        count++; // variable
      }
    }

    //If the counting variable equals the lenght of the range, this candidate is the least common value
    if (count === numbers.length) { 
      return j; 
    }
    else{
      count = 0; // set count to 0 in order to test another candidate
    }
  }
}

alert(smallestCommons([1, 5]));