MXLCM prime factors approach giving TLE

no
try to find the lcm prime numbers example (3,5,7,11) it will be the multiplication of all
and we have a lot of primes under 10^4 so it can easily exceed long long

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Oh, I was too dumb. (10^4)^(10^4) would be the upper bound. Thank you for replying, by the way!!!

have a look at this

please take a look at this

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#include
using namespace std;

long long int gcd(long long int a,long long int b)
{
if (b == 0)
{
return a;
}
return gcd(b, a % b);
}

long long int lcm(long long int a[],long long int n)
{
long long int ans = a[0];

for (long long int i = 1; i < n; i++) 
{
    ans = (a[i] * ans)/ (gcd(a[i], ans)); 
}
return ans; 

}

int main() {
// your code goes here
int t;
cin>>t;
while(t–)
{
long long int n,m;
cin>>n>>m;

    long long int a[n];
    for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
    {
        cin>>a[i];
    }
    long long int ans=lcm(a,n);
    long long int max=ans;
    long long int num=1;

    for(long long int i=2;i<=m;i++)
    {
        long long int cur=(i*ans)/(gcd(i,ans));
        if(cur>max)
        {
            max=cur;
            num=i;
        }
    }
    cout<<num<<endl;
    
}
return 0;

}
can you help to find the error in this?

LCM overflows range of int. Store prime factorization instead.

have a look here

look at this

here take a look at this please

beautiful approach,i must say!

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Thank you, till now i got the point but now how will you find the smallest no… I guess your approach should be traverse from 1 to m and for each no. find the prime factors and multiply with original lcm ???

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Can Somebody Explain why my code giving WA ??
Submission Link

Edit : Figured Out Integer Overflow

Can you link somewhere I can read this pre computing algo. I usually use the j = i*i ; j += i sieve, which I think doesnt work here.

Do not multiply. Just see which values are gonna change in previous LCM.
And select the one with Maximum change and minimum value

You can run the code, observer and see the difference b/w them.