Question: Prove for all n∈N, gcd
Attempt: I want to use Euclid's Algorithm because it seemed to be easier than what my book was doing which was manually finding the linear combination.
Euclid's Algorithm states that we let a,b \in N . By applying the Division Algorithm repeatedly...then \gcd(a,b) = r_j will be the last non-zero remainder. By the Well Ordering Principle, there is a smallest element of the set of natural numbers less than or equal to r_j.
I have used long division, but since I can't get it to show up here, I will type what I've done.
Starting at \gcd(2n+1,9n+4),
\frac{2n+1}{9n+4}
I can multiply 2n+1 four times and I would have a remainder of n because (9n+4)-(8n+4) = 9n+4-8n-4=n
so we have 4 \cdot (2n+1)+n if I apply Euclid's Algorithm.
For \gcd(2n+1, n),
\frac{2n+1}{n}
I can multiply n 2 times and I will have only 1 as the remainder because (2n+1)-(2n+0) = 2n+1-2n+0=1
Therefore, we have 2 \cdot (n) +1
and \gcd(n,1) which is 1
Since the end result is 1, \gcd(2n+1,9n+4)=1
I followed an example from this link
http://cms.math.ca/crux/v33/n5/public_page274-276.pdf
Am I doing this correctly?
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