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On 23.04.2018 17:59, Steve Holden wrote:
While Tim's expression might look (superficially) like C, the five-line alternative isn't exactly an inspiring example of Pythonicity, is it?
What about
diff = x - x\_base if diff and gcd(diff, n) > 1: return gcd(diff, n)# or
if (x - x_base) and gcd(x - x_base, n) > 1:
return gcd(x - x_base, n)
and have the interpreter handle the optimization, or apply an
lru_cache? ;-)
Cheers,
Sven