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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: www.equestionanswers.com - C,C++, VC++,MFC,COM,DCOM, DLL question and answers for interviews and self-study |
| Date | 2014-12-29 00:57 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 28/12/2014 20:47, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> bert <bert.hutchings@btinternet.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Sunday, 28 December 2014 19:56:02 UTC, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>> ... Take a look at the highest common factor program.
>>>
>>> Your age is showing, Ben, and so would mine. Currently,
>>> the preferred terminology is greatest common divisor.
>>
>> It's also my preferred term (does that make me young again?!), but I
>> thought I'd stick with the term used by the site in question so people
>> could find it (though, really, don't bother).
>
> Too late. But I couldn't find it using either 'highest' or 'greatest'
> on the page of C questions. (I had to use the search box.)
Odd. Maybe we are looking at different pages.
> What was the problem with the code anyway, the algorithm? It worked,
> sort of (it's slow for big numbers, and returns garbage when there is
> no gcd >= 2 or both operands are negative).
I'd think that would be enough for anyone! The algorithm is
preposterous, and it fails more often than it succeeds, but I see you
got right to the heart of the problem...
> It does however use scanf("%d %d",&a,&b) which I had more of an issue
> with: it seems the separator has to be white-space only, you can't use
> a comma. Another mark against scanf.
Shocking! What would you'd do instead?
--
Ben.
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