PyEuler

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 13:57:46 EST 2008


On Feb 25, 11:25 am, bearophileH... at lycos.com wrote:
> This is the first time I write something that looks like a little
> rant :-) Surely I'll be wrong in many points, but I presume this isn't
> going to damage people, so...

Agreed on all points. :-)  This looks a lot like someone trying to
write
Haskell in Python.  And that's a truly horrible way of finding a least
common multiple:  much better to do lcm(a, b) = a*(b//gcd(a, b)), with
gcd computed using the usual algorithm (written *iteratively*, not
recursively).

Mark



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