Practice Simplification Of The Strategy (2.1.5) - Improving naive gcd - Data Structures and Algorithms in Python
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Simplification of the strategy

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Question 1 Easy

What is the purpose of calculating the gcd of two numbers?

💡 Hint: Think about parts and division.

Question 2 Easy

Explain what a naive approach generally involves for calculating gcd.

💡 Hint: Consider a method that brute forces through possibilities.

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Question 1

What is the main purpose of calculating the gcd?

To find common factors
To find the largest divisor
To determine primes

💡 Hint: Consider what it means to divide without remainder.

Question 2

Using the optimized gcd method, do we need to store all common factors?

True
False

💡 Hint: What is necessary when we only care about the largest?

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Challenge 1 Hard

Given m = 48 and n = 180, implement a Python function to find gcd using the discussed optimized method.

💡 Hint: Start from the smaller number and loop downwards.

Challenge 2 Hard

Explain how the changes to the gcd algorithm improve performance in terms of computational efficiency.

💡 Hint: Think about the number of iterations and what needs to be remembered.

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