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gcd

Calculates the greatest common divisor between two numbers.

Use recursion. Base case is when y equals 0. In this case, return x. Otherwise, return the GCD of y and the remainder of the division x/y.

const gcd = (x, y) => (!y ? x : gcd(y, x % y));
gcd(8, 36); // 4