Matthew Barnett added the comment:

As it appears that there isn't general agreement on how to calculate the GCD 
when negative numbers are involved, I needed to look for another way of 
thinking about it.

Splitting off the sign as another factor was what I came up with.

Pragmatism beats purity, and all that! :-)

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