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Author mrabarnett
Recipients akira, brg@gladman.plus.com, gladman, mark.dickinson, mrabarnett, scoder, steven.daprano, terry.reedy, vstinner, wolma
Date 2014-09-25.16:02:23
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As it appears that there isn't general agreement on how to calculate the GCD when negative numbers are involved, I needed to look for another way of thinking about it.

Splitting off the sign as another factor was what I came up with.

Pragmatism beats purity, and all that! :-)
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