Het is in de standaardbibliotheek .

>>> from fractions import gcd
>>> gcd(20,8)
4

Broncode van de module inspect in Python 2.7:

>>> print inspect.getsource(gcd)
def gcd(a, b):
    """Calculate the Greatest Common Divisor of a and b.

    Unless b==0, the result will have the same sign as b (so that when
    b is divided by it, the result comes out positive).
    """
    while b:
        a, b = b, a%b
    return a

Vanaf Python 3.5 is gcd in de < code> wiskunde module; die in fracties is verouderd. Bovendien retourneert inspect.getsource niet langer een verklarende broncode voor beide methoden.

De algoritmen met m-n kunnen ontzettend lang werken.

Deze presteert veel beter:

def gcd(x, y):
    while y != 0:
        (x, y) = (y, x % y)
    return x

Deze codeversie gebruikt het algoritme van Euclid voor het vinden van GCD.

def gcd_recursive(a, b):
    if b == 0:
        return a
    else:
        return gcd_recursive(b, a % b)

gcd = lambda m,n: m if not n else gcd(n,m%n)

def gcd(m,n):
    return gcd(abs(m-n), min(m, n)) if (m-n) else n

#This program will find the hcf of a given list of numbers.

A = [65, 20, 100, 85, 125]     #creates and initializes the list of numbers

def greatest_common_divisor(_A):
  iterator = 1
  factor = 1
  a_length = len(_A)
  smallest = 99999

#get the smallest number
for number in _A: #iterate through array
  if number < smallest: #if current not the smallest number
    smallest = number #set to highest

while iterator <= smallest: #iterate from 1 ... smallest number
for index in range(0, a_length): #loop through array
  if _A[index] % iterator != 0: #if the element is not equally divisible by 0
    break #stop and go to next element
  if index == (a_length - 1): #if we reach the last element of array
    factor = iterator #it means that all of them are divisibe by 0
iterator += 1 #let's increment to check if array divisible by next iterator
#print the factor
print factor

print "The highest common factor of: ",
for element in A:
  print element,
print " is: ",

greatest_common_devisor (A)

def gcdIter(a, b):
gcd= min (a,b)
for i in range(0,min(a,b)):
    if (a%gcd==0 and b%gcd==0):
        return gcd
        break
    gcd-=1

The value swapping didn't work well for me. So I just set up a mirror-like situation for numbers that are entered in either a < b OR a > b:

def gcd(a, b):
    if a > b:
        r = a % b
        if r == 0:
            return b
        else:
            return gcd(b, r)
    if a < b:
        r = b % a
        if r == 0:
            return a
        else:
            return gcd(a, r)

print gcd(18, 2)

Deze code berekent de gcd van meer dan twee getallen, afhankelijk van de keuze van # de gebruiker, hier geeft de gebruiker het nummer

numbers = [];
count = input ("HOW MANY NUMBERS YOU WANT TO CALCULATE GCD?\n")
for i in range(0, count):
  number = input("ENTER THE NUMBER : \n")
  numbers.append(number)
numbers_sorted = sorted(numbers)
print  'NUMBERS SORTED IN INCREASING ORDER\n',numbers_sorted
gcd = numbers_sorted[0]

for i in range(1, count):
  divisor = gcd
  dividend = numbers_sorted[i]
  remainder = dividend % divisor
  if remainder == 0 :
  gcd = divisor
  else :
    while not remainder == 0 :
      dividend_one = divisor
      divisor_one = remainder
      remainder = dividend_one % divisor_one
      gcd = divisor_one

print 'GCD OF ' ,count,'NUMBERS IS \n', gcd

in python met recursie:

def gcd(a, b):
    if a%b == 0:
        return b
    return gcd(b, a%b)

Zeer beknopte oplossing met recursie:

def gcd(a, b):
    if b == 0:
        return a
    return gcd(b, a%b)

Ik denk dat een andere manier is om recursie te gebruiken. Hier is mijn code:

def gcd(a, b):
    if a > b:
        c = a - b
        gcd(b, c)
    elif a < b:
        c = b - a
        gcd(a, c)
    else:
        return a

a=int(raw_input('1st no \n'))
b=int(raw_input('2nd no \n'))

def gcd(m,n):
    z=abs(m-n)
    if (m-n)==0:
        return n
    else:
        return gcd(z,min(m,n))


print gcd(a,b)

Een andere benadering op basis van het algoritme van euclides.

def gcdRecur(a, b):
    '''
    a, b: positive integers

    returns: a positive integer, the greatest common divisor of a & b.
    '''
    # Base case is when b = 0
    if b == 0:
        return a

    # Recursive case
    return gcdRecur(b, a % b)

def gcd(a,b):
    if b > a:
        return gcd(b,a)
    r = a%b
    if r == 0:
        return b
    return gcd(r,b)

For a>b:

def gcd(a, b):

    if(a

def gcd(a, b):

    t = min(a, b)

    # Keep looping until t divides both a & b evenly
    while a % t != 0 or b % t != 0:
        t -= 1

    return t