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@Koro Who would ask it unless the person is a beginner or a university student seeing Number Theory in its most beautiful form for the first time?
@Koro Btw I tried doing the sort of random testing in Bezout's identity with $a = 6, b =3$. As we know, $g = (a,b) = 3$; also we're interested in finding the least positive integer value of $6x + 3y$. Now suppose that there was an element smaller than the GCD that is positive. We can write the inequality $0 < 6x + 3y < 3 \implies 0 < 2x + y < 1$. We see, there can't be an integer between $0$ and $1$, hence the least possible value of the expression must be $3$.
I think that itself is a consequence of Bezout's identity with a pair of coprime integers (here, $2$ and $1$)
@Koro The question I mentioned is the one in the third edited comment in the comment block before your reply
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