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Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) of positive integer numbers

        
/*
 * $RCSfile: MathUtil.java,v $
 * $Revision: 1.1 $
 * $Date: 2005/02/11 05:02:25 $
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 * Class:                   MathUtil
 *
 * Description:             Utility mathematical methods
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 *
 * This software module was originally developed by Raphal Grosbois and
 * Diego Santa Cruz (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-EPFL); Joel
 * Askelf (Ericsson Radio Systems AB); and Bertrand Berthelot, David
 * Bouchard, Flix Henry, Gerard Mozelle and Patrice Onno (Canon Research
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/**
 * This class contains a collection of utility methods fro mathematical
 * operations. All methods are static.
 * */
public class MathUtil {

  /** 
   * Method that calculates the Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) of several
   * positive integer numbers.
   *
   * @param x Array containing the numbers.
   * */
  public static final int gcd(int[] x) {
      if(x.length<2) {
          throw new Error("Do not use this method if there are less than"+
                          " two numbers.");
      }
      int tmp = gcd(x[x.length-1],x[x.length-2]);
      for(int i=x.length-3; i>=0; i--) {
          if(x[i]<0) {
              throw new IllegalArgumentException("Cannot compute the least "+
                                                 "common multiple of "+
                                                 "several numbers where "+
                                                 "one, at least,"+
                                                 "is negative.");
          }
          tmp = gcd(tmp,x[i]);
      }
      return tmp;
  }

  /** 
   * Method that calculates the Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) of two
   * positive integer numbers.
   * */
  public static final int gcd(int x1,int x2) {
      if(x1<0 || x2<0) {
          throw new IllegalArgumentException("Cannot compute the GCD "+
                                             "if one integer is negative.");
      }
      int a,b,g,z;

      if(x1>x2) {
          a = x1;
          b = x2;
      } else {
          a = x2;
          b = x1;
      }

      if(b==0) return 0;

      g = b;
      while (g!=0) {
          z= a%g;
          a = g;
          g = z;
      }
      return a;
  }

}

   
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
  








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