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Questions about implementing elementary arithmetic operations on a computer with hardware or algorithms. The numbers are often assumed to be in a binary representation, add the [floating-point] tag for arithmetic operations on numbers in a floating point representation.

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What is most efficient for GCD?

First, don't use recursivity to replace a tight loop. It is slow. Don't rely on the compiler to optimize it out. Second, in your code, you call Math.abs() within every recursive calls, which is use …
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