Given: $a = qb + r$. Then it holds that $\gcd(a,b)=\gcd(b,r)$. That doesn't sound logical to me. Why is this so?
Addendum by LePressentiment on 11/29/2013: (in the interest of http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/a/4110/53259 and averting a duplicate)
What's the intuition behind this result? I only recognise the proof and examples solely due to algebraic properties and formal definitions; I'd like to apprehend the result naturally.