The Euclidean algorithm finds the greatest common divisor by replacing a pair with the smaller number and the remainder.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 | #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdint.h> #include <limits.h> #include <errno.h> // Euclidean GCD in C // // PURPOSE // The Euclidean algorithm finds the greatest common divisor by replacing a pair with the // smaller number and the remainder. Common divisors are preserved by this replacement. // // METHOD // Repeatedly compute a modulo b, move b into a, and put the remainder into b. Stop when b is // zero; the last nonzero value divides both original inputs. // // COMPLEXITY // O(log(min(a,b))) arithmetic steps for positive inputs, O(1) auxiliary space. // // CONTRACT // a and b are nonnegative integers. Defines gcd(0,0) as 0. Avoid negative values because // remainder conventions vary by language. // Public APIs infer array lengths except in C, which accepts pointer/length pairs. Vertex // counts and matrix dimensions remain explicit. Arrays must contain signed 32-bit integers. // Sorted order, correct tree topology, and caller-owned data-structure invariants are // preconditions; checking them on every query would change query complexity. // Scalar and shape checks are included. Value-range checks are included where needed to // prevent invalid indexing or nontermination. Allocation sizes are capped at 4,000,000 // workspace entries. Arithmetic outside Python raises an error on 32-bit overflow; Python // uses arbitrary precision. Native allocation failures propagate. In-place outputs may be // partly updated after arithmetic failure. These are single-threaded, in-memory // implementations. // // LANGUAGE DETAILS // C99: checked calloc/free workspace, const input pointers, explicit size_t lengths. Errors // return INT_MIN with errno=EINVAL, ERANGE, or ENOMEM. Check errno before using a result. // Input/output arrays must not alias. No variable-length stack arrays. // // EXAMPLE // Expected return: 6. // Run: gcc -std=c99 -O2 example.c -o example && ./example // Tests for this exact source artifact run before publication. The accompanying source // archive includes unit cases, runtime results, and source hashes. static int alg_min(int a, int b) { return a < b ? a : b; } static int alg_max(int a, int b) { return a > b ? a : b; } static int alg_checked(int64_t v, int *error) { if (v < INT_MIN || v > INT_MAX) { *error = 1; return 0; } return (int)v; } static int alg_add(int a, int b, int *e) { return alg_checked((int64_t)a+b,e); } static int alg_sub(int a, int b, int *e) { return alg_checked((int64_t)a-b,e); } static int alg_mul(int a, int b, int *e) { return alg_checked((int64_t)a*b,e); } int gcd(int a, int b) { int alg_error = 0; int alg_result = INT_MIN; errno = 0; if (!(((a >= 0) && (b >= 0)))) { errno = EINVAL; alg_result = INT_MIN; goto alg_cleanup; } if (alg_error) { errno = ERANGE; alg_result = INT_MIN; goto alg_cleanup; } int remainder = 0; if (alg_error) { errno = ERANGE; alg_result = INT_MIN; goto alg_cleanup; } while (1) { int alg_condition = (b != 0); if (alg_error) { errno = ERANGE; alg_result = INT_MIN; goto alg_cleanup; } if (!alg_condition) break; remainder = (a % b); if (alg_error) { errno = ERANGE; alg_result = INT_MIN; goto alg_cleanup; } a = b; if (alg_error) { errno = ERANGE; alg_result = INT_MIN; goto alg_cleanup; } b = remainder; if (alg_error) { errno = ERANGE; alg_result = INT_MIN; goto alg_cleanup; } } alg_result = a; if (alg_error) { errno = ERANGE; alg_result = INT_MIN; goto alg_cleanup; } goto alg_cleanup; alg_cleanup: return alg_result; } int main(void) { int a = 48; int b = 18; int result = gcd(a, b); printf("%d\n", result); if (errno) { perror("algorithm"); return 1; } return 0; } |