Decimals -> Fraction strings, my solution
François Pinard
pinard at iro.umontreal.ca
Mon May 22 13:36:27 EDT 2000
ullrich at math.okstate.edu (David C. Ullrich) writes:
> def gcd(a, b):
> while a:
> a, b = b % a, a
> return b
By the way, I think the above could be better written:
def gcd(a, b):
while b:
a, b = b, a % b
return a
It does not change much, and I'm not even sure exactly why, but I find it
more legible.
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François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard
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