I’ve been following Mr. Snow’s tutorial on Least Common Multiple… but his finished solution leaves me with an infinte loop on line 17. Can anyone explain to me what is going on here?
function smallestCommons(arr) {
// set LCM boolean;
// LCM++ and check answer;
// if yes,throw boolean and return LCM;
var first = Math.min (arr[0],arr[1]);// sort array of (arr);
var last = Math.max (arr[0],arr[1]);
var range = [];
for(var i = first; i <= last; i++){
range.push(i);
}
var LCM = 0;
var flag = true;
while (flag){
LCM++;
for(var j = first; j <= last; j++){
if (LCM % j !== 0){
break;
}
else if (j===last){
flag = false;
}
}
}
return LCM;}// end of smallestCommons(arr);
smallestCommons([23, 18]);