From: Rudolf Polzer <denshimeiru-sapmctacher@...>
Date: 2003-07-30T11:36:49+09:00
Subject: Hm... nice, Euclid is a one-liner

  a, b = b, a % b while b != 0

That's what I like about Ruby.

The Perl equivalent is, of course:

  ($a, $b) = ($b, $a % $b) while $b;

Is there anywhere such a collection of mathematical algorithms in Ruby?


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 "The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way
 to factor large prime numbers."
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