[issue32466] Remove fractions._gcd()

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

> but it would result in a behaviour change: for the above code, we'd get a `Fraction` whose numerator and denominator were both of actual type `int` instead of `mpz`

Ah, sorry. That's not true in this particular case. The returned gcd would be of type `int`, but then we end up dividing an `mpz` by an `int` to get an `mpz`. So I guess the problem case is where we have something that's like `mpz` but that doesn't support division by a plain `int`: I don't think there's any requirement that instances of numbers.Integral support mixed-type arithmetic with plain ints.

I'd actually be happier if the `fractions.Fraction` type *did* normalise so that its numerator and denominator always had exact type `int`, but that's not the way that it was designed: it was designed to support arbitrary numbers.Integral instances.

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