Coprime number sequence
Two numbers \(a\) and \(b\) are coprime if their Greatest Common Divisor (GCD) is 1. GCD is the largest positive number that divides two given numbers \(a\) and \(b\). For example, the numbers 7 and 9 are coprime because their GCD is 1.
Given two lists list1
and list2
, your task is to create a new list coprimes
that contains all the coprime pairs from list1
and list2
.
But first, you need to write a function for the GCD using the following algorithm:
- check if \(b = 0\)
- if true, return \(a\) as the GCD between \(a\) and \(b\)
- if false, go to step 2
- make a substitution \(a \leftarrow b\) and \(b \leftarrow a \% b\)
- go back to step 1
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def gcd(a, b):
# Define the while loop as described
while ____:
temp_a = ____
a = ____
b = ____
# Complete the return statement
return ____