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| author | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2015-05-12 21:19:51 (GMT) |
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| committer | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2015-05-12 21:19:51 (GMT) |
| commit | 48e47aaa28d6dfdae128142ffcbc4b0642422e90 (patch) | |
| tree | f62918798a55edb3aa09e9c95ec92d965fc5283e /Doc/library | |
| parent | f0eeedf0d8ffff9d7ea8874e60992845595f091f (diff) | |
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Issue #22486: Added the math.gcd() function. The fractions.gcd() function now is
deprecated. Based on patch by Mark Dickinson.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/fractions.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/math.rst | 8 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/fractions.rst b/Doc/library/fractions.rst index c2c7401..e0f0682 100644 --- a/Doc/library/fractions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/fractions.rst @@ -172,6 +172,9 @@ another rational number, or from a string. sign as *b* if *b* is nonzero; otherwise it takes the sign of *a*. ``gcd(0, 0)`` returns ``0``. + .. deprecated:: 3.5 + Use :func:`math.gcd` instead. + .. seealso:: diff --git a/Doc/library/math.rst b/Doc/library/math.rst index eda0056..11389e6 100644 --- a/Doc/library/math.rst +++ b/Doc/library/math.rst @@ -100,6 +100,14 @@ Number-theoretic and representation functions <http://code.activestate.com/recipes/393090/>`_\. +.. function:: gcd(a, b) + + Return the greatest common divisor of the integers *a* and *b*. If either + *a* or *b* is nonzero, then the value of ``gcd(a, b)`` is the largest + positive integer that divides both *a* and *b*. ``gcd(0, 0)`` returns + ``0``. + + .. function:: isfinite(x) Return ``True`` if *x* is neither an infinity nor a NaN, and |