845. Greatest Common Divisor

描述

Given two numbers, number a and number b. Find the greatest common divisor of the given two numbers.

  • In mathematics, the greatest common divisor (gcd) of two or more integers, which are not all zero, is the largest positive integer that divides each of the integers.

样例

Given a = 10, = 15, return 5.
Given a = 15, b = 30, return 15.

辗转相除法, 又名欧几里德算法(Euclidean algorithm),是求最大公约数的一种方法。它的具体做法是:用较小数除较大数,再用出现的余数(第一余数)去除除数,再用出现的余数(第二余数)去除第一余数,如此反复,直到最后余数是0为止。如果是求两个数的最大公约数,那么最后的除数就是这两个数的最大公约数。
另一种求两数的最大公约数的方法是更相减损法。
public class Solution {
    /**
     * @param a: the given number
     * @param b: another number
     * @return: the greatest common divisor of two numbers
     */
	 public int gcd(int a, int b) {
	        // write your code here
		 	
		 	if(b == 0) {
		 		return a;
		 	}
		 	return gcd (b, a%b);
		 	
	    }
}
posted @ 2019-04-02 21:45  故人叹  阅读(184)  评论(0)    收藏  举报