elementary number theory - Prove that $gcd(a, b) = gcd(b, a-b)$
I can understand the concept that $\gcd(a, b) = \gcd(b, r)$, where $a = bq + r$, which is grounded from the fact that $\gcd(a, b) = \gcd(b, a-b)$, but I have no intuition for the latter.
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