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by conistonwater 4410 days ago
I think you misunderstood the Euclidean algorithm. The basic iteration is of the form

    gcd(a, b) = gcd(b, a mod b),
and there is no need to compute mod with anything other than %.
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You're right. This is the subtraction-based implementation, the division-based is the original and better one :)

https://github.com/felipernb/algorithms.js/commit/e5a04f9ad0...