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Fast Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) Algorithm

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15 Feb 2011CPOL1 min read 23.5K   2  
The computational efficiency of the Euclid's algorithm is much higher that the alternatives

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11 Feb 2011ZamirF
Can we simplify it by: (This essentially passes only two numbers). public int GCD(int value1, int value2){ int max = 0; bool gcdFound = false; int counter = 1; //Make sure both numbers are atleast 2 or above if (( value1 <= 1 ) || (value2 <= 1)) return...
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14 Feb 2011jfriedman
/// /// Find the Greatest Common Divisor /// /// Number a /// Number b /// The greatest common Divisor public static long GCD(long a, long b) ...
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18 Feb 2011Mauro Leggieri
It is better to do this:public static long LCM(long a, long b){ return (a / GCD(a,b)) * b;}To avoid overflow on big numbers.

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