Practice - Simplification of the strategy
Practice Questions
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What is the purpose of calculating the gcd of two numbers?
💡 Hint: Think about parts and division.
Explain what a naive approach generally involves for calculating gcd.
💡 Hint: Consider a method that brute forces through possibilities.
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is the main purpose of calculating the gcd?
💡 Hint: Consider what it means to divide without remainder.
Using the optimized gcd method, do we need to store all common factors?
💡 Hint: What is necessary when we only care about the largest?
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Challenge Problems
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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.
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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