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.)