Composition of two indefinite binary quadratic forms of the same discriminant

We start with two indefinite binary quadratic forms a1x2+b1xy+c1y2 and a2x2+b2xy+c2y2, where b12- 4a1c1=b22- 4a2c2.
We use an algorithm due to F. Arndt (Auflösung einer Aufgabe in der Composition der quadratischen Formen, J. Reine Angew. Math. 56, 64-71, 1859) to find the composite of the two forms.
This is a BCMATH version of Algorithm 5.4.7 from p. 241-242 of A Course in Computational Number Theory, 1993, by Henri Cohen.
The output form is reduced.

Enter a1:
Enter b1:
Enter c1:
Enter a2:
Enter b2:
Enter c2:

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