The Glory of the Stage
A mathematics professor went to see a performance of Hamlet . He determined that the actors present spoke 14,443 words and took 5,252 steps during the performance.
He amused himself by quickly figuring out the GCD of those two numbers. What was his result?
The answer is 1313.
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1 solution
Moderator note:
Simple standard approach.
14443 = 11 * 13 * 101
5252 = 4 * 13 * 101
The GCD is clearly 13 * 101 = 1313