Alright, is that what the method is doing essentially?

Yes.

Have you never taken Algebra in school?

Yup, it's been a while since I've had to find GCF, moreover in a program lol... I just remember finding it in my head though in school lol

Thanks for the help by the way

This post was edited by DD_Rocking on Nov 7 2014 09:45pm

Yep.

Now lets see the final product.

haha I did get it to work in a non recurring while-loop that is inside of a method that reduces the fractions. In the specifics for this program, we cant use any returns for the reduce method I am using

Basically, it has to be a private method that only uses instance variables and return nothing

This post was edited by DD_Rocking on Nov 7 2014 10:56pm

That makes sense. If I was to implement this my reduce method would be a private void method on my Fraction class

I am curious about the while loop though. I can't see why that is needed.

This post was edited by Minkomonster on Nov 7 2014 11:01pm

yeah hehe thats exactly what it's supposed to be lol

hmm i'd make it public. if i want a Fraction object to represent 10/100, i'm not sure i want it to auto reduce to 1/10 from the constructor. i'd only want it to auto reduce after performing arithmetic. maybe have a setting for it.

then again, i'm not sure i don't want it to auto reduce from the constructor either. not sure what the downsides are. thats just how apache commons does it iirc, but that's because their equals doesn't first reduce both fractions.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Nov 7 2014 11:12pm

hmm, would it change what the result of the arithmetic would be?

up to you. if you want to add 1/2 and 1/2, would you want it to be 2/2 or 1/1? would you consider 2/2 and 1/1 to be equal?

This post was edited by carteblanche on Nov 7 2014 11:12pm