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The C programming language: its historical aspects and use on/targetting retro platforms.

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Why is this gcd implementation from the 80s so complicated?

As others have said, this is Stein's algorithm, and is remarkable for having taken so long to be discovered, considering the importance of GCD to number theory. While it was discovered at least as ea …
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