On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Richard D. Moores <rdmoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 19:10, James Mills <prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au> > wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:47 AM, David Hutto <smokefl...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> This is basically to get feedback, on a better way to show the >>> greatest common divisor in fraction, in order to reduce it fully, than >>> the one I've come up with. I'm sure there are better ways, so if you >>> have simpler method, or critique of what I've done, let me know. >> >> [snip] >> >> I have a far simpler solution: >> >>>>> from tools import gcd >>>>> gcd(20, 5) >> 5 > > In Python 3.1 that would be >>>> from fractions import gcd >>>> gcd(20,5) > 5
Yes. The code I provided above was code I wrote for various Euler problems I had been working on a whiel back. It was written for 2.x cheers James -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method" _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor