Description: Lemma for Euclid's Elements, Book 7, proposition 2. The original mentions the smaller measure being 'continually subtracted' from the larger. Many authors interpret this phrase as A mod B . Here, just one subtraction step is proved to preserve the gcdOLD . The rec function will be used in other proofs for iterated subtraction. (Contributed by Jeff Hoffman, 17-Jun-2008) (Proof modification is discouraged.) (New usage is discouraged.)