On 7 Aug 2005 17:31:02 -0700, "Jordan Rastrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Good point. I suppose I'd only ever seen it implemented with the if >test, but you're right, the plain while loop should work fine. Silly >me. > >def gcd(a,b): > while b != 0: > a, b = b, a%b > return a > >Even nicer. > what is the convention for handling signed arguments? E.g., >>> def gcd(a,b): ... while b != 0: ... a, b = b, a%b ... return a ... >>> gcd(3, -12) -3 >>> gcd(-12, 3) 3 Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
