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I was hoping one of the geniuses who oft roam the monestery could quickly see my problem and offer some suggestion

Use the shoulders of an ancient genius :)
You could use Euclidean algorithm to find GCD. It's very simple: you can find info here. (http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/euclidalgo.html)

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