There are several questions on Stack Overflow discussing how to find the Greatest Common Divisor of two values. One good answer shows a neat recursive function
This are the three most common used:
public static uint FindGCDModulus(uint value1, uint value2)
{
while(value1 != 0 && value2 != 0)
{
if (value1 > value2)
{
value1 %= value2;
}
else
{
value2 %= value1;
}
}
return Math.Max(value1, value2);
}
public static uint FindGCDEuclid(uint value1, uint value2)
{
while(value1 != 0 && value2 != 0)
{
if (value1 > value2)
{
value1 -= value2;
}
else
{
value2 -= value1;
}
}
return Math.Max(value1, value2);
}
public static uint FindGCDStein(uint value1, uint value2)
{
if (value1 == 0) return value2;
if (value2 == 0) return value1;
if (value1 == value2) return value1;
bool value1IsEven = (value1 & 1u) == 0;
bool value2IsEven = (value2 & 1u) == 0;
if (value1IsEven && value2IsEven)
{
return FindGCDStein(value1 >> 1, value2 >> 1) << 1;
}
else if (value1IsEven && !value2IsEven)
{
return FindGCDStein(value1 >> 1, value2);
}
else if (value2IsEven)
{
return FindGCDStein(value1, value2 >> 1);
}
else if (value1 > value2)
{
return FindGCDStein((value1 - value2) >> 1, value2);
}
else
{
return FindGCDStein(value1, (value2 - value1) >> 1);
}
}