euclid's magic

Let k be any integer. If GCD ( 3k+2 , 5k+3 ) = A find 'A'


The answer is 1.

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Low Wei Chian
Mar 27, 2015

Using Euclidean Algorithm 5k+3=1 (3k+2)+2k+1, where 2k+1 is the remainder 3k+2=1 (2k+1)+k+1, 2k+1=1 (k+1)+k, k+1=1 (k)+1, k=k*(1)+0. The process stops when remainder equals zero so GCD = 1

Ahmad Elsagheer
Nov 14, 2014

If A>B then, GCD(A,B) = GCD(B,R) , where R is the remainder of A/B .

GCD(5k+3,3k+2)
= GCD(3k+2, 2k+1) = GCD(2k+1,k+1) = GCD(k+1, k) = GCD(k,1) = 1

If k k can be any integer, let k = 0 k = 0 . It is easy thus to see that gcd ( 2 , 3 ) = 1. \text{gcd} (2, 3) = 1.

What is GCD?

Yash Jain - 6 years, 7 months ago

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GCD stand for greatest common divisor.

Parveen Soni - 6 years, 7 months ago

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