Greatest Common Divisor

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Greatest Common Divison

Works with PostgreSQL

8.4

Written in

SQL

Depends on

Nothing

Using a CTE, the calculation of greatest common divisor (gcd) is trivial.

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION gcd( a bigint,  b bigint)
RETURNS bigint
IMMUTABLE
STRICT
LANGUAGE SQL
AS $$
WITH RECURSIVE t(a,b) AS (
    VALUES (abs($1)::bigint, abs($2)::bigint)
UNION ALL
    SELECT b, mod(a,b) FROM t
    WHERE b > 0
)
SELECT a FROM t WHERE b = 0
$$;