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C Program to Find the GCD and LCM of Two Integers

This C Program calculates the GCD and LCM of two integers. Here GCD means Greatest Common Divisor. For two integers a and b, if there are any numbers d so that a / d and b / d doesn’t have any remainder, such a number is called a common divisor. Common divisors exist for any pair of integers a and b, since we know that 1 always divides any integer. We also know that common divisors can’t get too big since divisors can’t be any larger than the number they are dividing. Hence a common divisor d of a and b must have d <= a and d <= b. Here, LCM means Least Common Multiplies. For two integer a & b, to know if there are any smallest numbers d so that d / a and d / b doesn't have a remainder. such a number is called a Least Common Multiplier. Here is source code of the C program to calculate the GCD and LCM of two integers. The C program is successfully compiled and run on a Linux system. The program output is also shown below. 1.   /* 2.    * C program to find the GC