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Step-by-Step Guide to Fast HCF and GCD Tutorial in Visual Basic for Primary Students




Fast Visual Basic Code to Find HCF (GCD)

This tutorial demonstrates an efficient Visual Basic method to calculate the Highest Common Factor (HCF), also known as the Greatest Common Divisor (GCD). Using prime factorization and loop optimization, students can learn how Visual Basic handles numerical sorting and divisor checks.
The H.C.F. code in VB.Net from the previous lesson could get a bit slow if we run into a prime number and this prime number becomes the loop range.
Now functions come in handy, don't they?

Let's see how we can fix this and make a fast VB.Net algorithm to find HCF:

Step 1:

Do a numerical sort on the resulting set so its first member is the smallest in the set.

Step 2:

Find the factors of the first number in the set.

Step 3:

Iteratively check through the set of numbers with the factors from Step 2 to make sure it is common to all.

Step 4:

For each common factor, divide every member of the number set by the common factor.


Note: You can reuse the previous class and module if you want.



So! Visual Basic Fun Practice Exercise - Fast Find HCF

As a fun practice exercise, feel free to try out your own numbers, and see how the fast Visual Basic code finds the HCF of those numbers.









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