greatest common factor

These functions determine the greatest common factor or least common multiple of a set of numbers. gcf() and lcm() take two numbers as arguments, and multigcf() and multilcm() will take any amount. EDIT: fixed a bug in multigcf().

sub gcf {
  my ($x, $y) = @_;
  ($x, $y) = ($y, $x % $y) while $y;
  return $x;
}

sub lcm {
  return($_[0] * $_[1] / gcf($_[0], $_[1]));
}

sub multigcf {
  my $x = shift;
  $x = gcf($x, shift) while @_;
  return $x;
}

sub multilcm {
  my $x = shift;
  $x = lcm($x, shift) while @_;
  return $x;
}
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