Question: IV. Finding greatest common divisor, for example the largest number that divides both 20 and 30 is 10. So gcd (20,30)=10, gcd (1,15)-1, gcd

IV. Finding greatest common divisor, for example the largest number that divides

 

IV. Finding greatest common divisor, for example the largest number that divides both 20 and 30 is 10. So gcd (20,30)=10, gcd (1,15)-1, gcd (25,25)-25. The gcd can be found using the strategy below. Since a and b can be very large numbers, assume both start as n/2-bit numbers with divide taking lg. (n/2) steps and subtraction taking n/2 steps i. Give the pseudocode for gcd. ii. Find T(n) where n is the number of bits of a + number of bits of b (both are n/2 bit numbers initially which add to n bits). iii. Using the worst case situation, solve T(n) to find closed form running time Given gcd(1,b)=gcd(a,1)=1 for any a.b>=1 2 ged(a/2, b/2) if a, b are even gcd(a, b) = gcd (a, b/2) if a is odd, b is even gcd ((a b)/2, b) if a, bare odd

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