In this last lesson, we developed a function that will find the GCD of two numbers. It turns
out when you "reduce a fraction to lowest terms," you are really dividing both the numerator and denominator
by the GCD. So we'll do that here: program a simple "fraction reducer" using the GCD function from the last lesson.
But, there's a small issue. Remember in the gcd(a,b) function that the first argument (a) must be less than the second
argument (b). To be sure our fraction reducer will always work, let's write a "wrapper function" called get_gcd that will
ensure that the main gcd function gets called with the lower number first.
Now you try. Fix the if statement to compare a and b, and the two gcd function calls to ensure that
gcd(a,b) always gets called with $a< b$.
Type your code here:
See your results here:
This code will not run! You have to do two things. First, figure out what condition you'll put in the if statement
to check on the relative size of a vs. b. Next, given the answer to your condition, in what order will you
place a and b in the gcd calls? It'll be either gcd(a,b) or gcd(b,a). See if you can figure
out which goes where.
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