The Euclidean Algorithm is vital to many factorization algorithms.
It is a very fast method for finding the gcd (greatest common divisor) of two numbers, without actually performing the factorization of either.
This page has pretty much all you need to know about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_algorithm
Monday, 22 October 2007
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