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Gregg Klein - Greatest Common Factor

$inactiveTopic$ Greatest Common Factor

topic started 1/27/2003; 2:19:26 PM
last post 1/28/2003; 2:22:13 PM

$user$ Gregg Klein - Greatest Common Factor $blueArrow$
1/27/2003; 2:19:26 PM (reads: 1391, responses: 2)

How can you evaluate if a number is the GCF of 2 random numbers.

$user$ John Jones - Re: Greatest Common Factor $blueArrow$
1/27/2003; 2:29:28 PM (reads: 1621, responses: 0)

Hi,

Is this what you mean?

$a = random(2,50);
$b = random(2, 50);
$ans = gcd($a, $b);

and then

ANS( num_cmp( $ans ) );

This will work as long as you load PGauxiliaryFunctions.pl at the top of the problem file.

John

$user$ Gregg Klein - Re: Greatest Common Factor $blueArrow$
1/28/2003; 2:22:13 PM (reads: 1642, responses: 0)

Thanks