Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms in Python

Algorithms and Programming: simple gcd

As most of you probably know, an algorithm is a description of how to systematically

perform some task.

So, it is not only a question of taking a number in and putting the number out. It could
involve rearranging things. It could involve computing more complicated things. It could
involve organizing the information in a particular ways, so these computations become
more tractable and that is what we call a data structure.