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     else
 
     else
 
         [c,d] = eeuclid(b, a % b)
 
         [c,d] = eeuclid(b, a % b)
         return [y, x - y*(a/b)]
+
         return [d, c - d*(a/b)]

Revision as of 20:14, 3 January 2011

This is the Extended Euclid algorithm we talked about last Thursday. Kind of cool, plug it into your favorite programming language.


def eeuclid(a,b)

   if a % b = 0:
       return [0,1]
   else
       [c,d] = eeuclid(b, a % b)
       return [d, c - d*(a/b)]

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Abstract algebra continues the conceptual developments of linear algebra, on an even grander scale.

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