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Given non-zero integers a, b ∈ Z, let X := {ra + sb | r, s...

Given non-zero integers a, b ∈ Z, let X := {ra + sb | r, s ∈ Z and ra + sb > 0}. Then: GCD(a, b) is the least element in X.

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