Euclid's Algorithm in Python?

jepler at unpythonic.net jepler at unpythonic.net
Thu Aug 4 22:50:56 EDT 2005


Well, this article
	http://pythonjournal.cognizor.com/pyj1/AMKuchling_algorithms-V1.html
was the first hit on google for '"euclid's algorithm" python'.

It contains this function:
    def GCD(a,b):
	assert a >= b     # a must be the larger number
	while (b != 0):
	    remainder = a % b
	    a, b  = b, remainder
	return a

Jeff
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