Trying to write a program to implement Euler's Algorithm????

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I am trying to write a program to implement Euler's algorithm. I know that the greatest common divisor of (a,b,c) = gcd(gcd(a,b),c). I also want to write another program to compute the gcd of three natural numbers. I am having trouble doing this though. Here is what I know, that a = b*(quotient q) + remainder(r), where a>b and b>r, so that to find the gcd(a,b) I could replace a and b by b and r and repeat the process. The successive remainders get smaller until I eventually get r = 0. I just simply am confused on how to go about writing a program for this.
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Reelz
Reelz 2012-4-23
I have the code down, but now I am trying to compute three outputs, I keep running into trouble though. Help please?
clear; clc
% input, take only positive numbers into account
a = input('First number: ');
b = input('Second number: ');
c = input('Third number: ');
a = abs(a);
b = abs(b);
c= abs(c);
r = a - b*floor(a/b);
% Repeat the operation till updates of a = # of update b
while r ~= 0
a > b;
a = b;
b = r;
r = a - b*floor(a/b);
end
% Show result
GCD = b
Geoff
Geoff 2012-4-23
Eh?? What are the other two outputs. I understand you want to compute GCD(a,b,c). Is that correct? If so, read my last comment. Make a function to compute GCD of two numbers. I don't see any function definitions in your code.

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Geoff
Geoff 2012-4-18
Have you considered doing a google for the Euclidean Algorithm?
Try the very first search result =P
Halfway down the page, there's very concise pseudocode.

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