Karim Belabas on Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:16:55 +0200


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Re: extended GCD


* Chris Card [2004-09-22 11:29]:
>>> Is it correct that PARI/GP doesn't have an extended GCD function?
>>
>>There is one, it is called bezout:
> I would never have guessed that name!

(12:07) gp > ???gcd
bezout    bezoutres charpoly  content   gcd       lcm 

would have given only 2 plausible candidates (the first two).

Cheers,

    Karim.

P.S: since 5 minutes ago, the CVS version also reacts positively to

(12:08) gp > ???"extended gcd"
bezout 

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