FORTRAN ROGRAM THAT CAN ACCEPT TWO INTEGER NUMBERS AND COMPUTE AND DISPLAY ALL THEIR COMMON PRIME FACTORS

Answer 1

Surprised some school actually programmes in Fortran. NASA still does though. It's been a while since I last touched the language. If you have written the programme and run into difficulties, I can help you debug, syntax or logic.

In fortran,
read(5,*)I,J
will read in two integers in free format.
write(6,'2I5')I,J
will write I and J up to 5 characters each.

You can use Euclid's algorithm to find the highest common factor, namely:
1. find the difference between I and J, call it K.
2. Divide the smaller of I or J by K and call the remainder R.
3. Replace the bigger of I or J by R and repeat 1 & 2 until R=0 or 1.
If R=0, K is the GCF.
If R=1, the GCF is 1 (i.e. no common factors).

Example:
I=80
J=48
K=I-J=32
R=remainder of 48/32=1 R16

I=16
J=48
K=48-16=32
R=remainder of 16/32=0 R16
I=16
J=16
GCF = 16 = 2^4

Answer 2

thanks mathmate for your response.

we were asked to use WATFOR77 compiler.i'm a newbee as far as programming is concern.

can you pls. write the program the way i can run it in WATFOR77?

thanks

edwin