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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients gladman, mark.dickinson, pitrou, scoder, serhiy.storchaka, wolma
Date 2014-09-25.16:56:00
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> Or would it co-exist with fractions.gcd(), with the 'less surprising'
> semantics that are under discussion in the 'GCD in Fractions' thread?

Yes, exactly.  math.gcd will always give a nonnegative result.  The output of fractions.gcd remains unchanged for integer inputs, for backwards compatibility.
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