On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Scott W Dunning wrote:
> I guess I answered my own question and it looks like it wouldn’t matter if
> you did it opposite from weeks to seconds.
Yep, you've got it!
Remember, you can always try things out in the interactive interpreter
to see what's happening. H
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Scott W Dunning wrote:
> How to do it from the small end up:
>
> time = int(raw_input("Enter number of seconds: "))
> seconds = time % 60
>
> So here it takes say 100 and divides it by 60 to put in seconds and
> spits out the remainder? 100 / 60 is approxi
On Feb 8, 2014, at 11:30 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
OH, I think I figured it out.
> time = int(raw_input("Enter number of seconds: “))
100
> seconds = time % 60
Remainder of 40 <- for seconds.
> time /= 60
Here you take 100/60 = 1 (which = time for the next line).
> minutes = time %
On Feb 8, 2014, at 11:30 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
I have one more question on this if you don’t mind. I’m a bit confused on how
it works this way without it being in seconds? I’ll answer below each step of
how it seems to work to me.
> How to do it from the small end up:
>
> time = int(ra
On 02/08/2014 05:21 PM, Scott W Dunning wrote:
I figured it out! Thanks Chris! Taking it one step at a time with the five
digit number really helped me to see how to break it all up! Are you a
teacher? I appreciate the help and the patients! I like that you don’t just
give me the answer t
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Scott W Dunning wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2014, at 6:46 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> That's certainly effective. It's going to give you the right result. I
> would be inclined to start from the small end and strip off the
> seconds first, then the minutes, etc, because t
On Feb 8, 2014, at 6:46 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> That's certainly effective. It's going to give you the right result. I
> would be inclined to start from the small end and strip off the
> seconds first, then the minutes, etc, because then you're working with
> smaller divisors (60, 60, 24, 7 i
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Scott W Dunning wrote:
>
> On Feb 8, 2014, at 6:46 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> I had no idea
> that, in a group of half a dozen nerds, nobody would recognize this
> broken text: "In brightest day, in blackest night / No evil ..
> sight / Let worship
On Feb 8, 2014, at 6:46 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> No, I'm not a teacher by profession, but I was homeschooled, and since
> I'm the second of seven children [1], I got used to teaching things to
> my siblings. Also, every week I run a Dungeons and Dragons campaign
> online, which requires simila
On Feb 7, 2014, at 11:29 PM, Chris Angelico wrote
> Close! But if you print out foo and bar, you'll see that you're naming
> them backwards in the second one. The last digit is the remainder
> (modulo), the rest is the quotient.
So, this is more like what you’re talking about?
>>> first = numbe
I figured it out! Thanks Chris! Taking it one step at a time with the five
digit number really helped me to see how to break it all up! Are you a
teacher? I appreciate the help and the patients! I like that you don’t just
give me the answer that you break it down and help me so that I can f
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Scott W Dunning wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2014, at 5:56 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> Carry on with that method - work out the number of minutes, and then
>> the "hours_etc" which has the rest. Then do the same to split off
>> hours, and then days. See how you go!
>
>
On Feb 8, 2014, at 5:56 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> Carry on with that method - work out the number of minutes, and then
> the "hours_etc" which has the rest. Then do the same to split off
> hours, and then days. See how you go!
I did it similar to that but I went backwards. I started with n
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Scott W Dunning wrote:
> I figured it out! Thanks Chris! Taking it one step at a time with the five
> digit number really helped me to see how to break it all up! Are you a
> teacher? I appreciate the help and the patients! I like that you don’t just
> give
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Scott W Dunning wrote:
> So, this is more like what you’re talking about?
>
first = number / 10
second = number % 10
last = first %10
rest = second / 10
>
> I feel stupid saying this and it’s probably because of the variables I’m
> using but I’
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Scott W Dunning wrote:
> Ok, so it this what you’re talking about?
>
>
> number = int(raw_input(“Enter a five digit number:))
> foo = number % 10
> bar = number / 10
>
> digit = foo / 10
> rem = bar % 10
>
Close! But if you print out foo and bar, you'll see that yo
>
> On Feb 7, 2014, at 10:10 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> number = int(raw_input("Enter a five-digit number: "))
>>
>> Now we begin to split it up:
>>
>> foo = number % 10
>> bar = number / 10
>>
Ok, so it this what you’re talking about?
number = int(raw_input(“Enter a five digit number:
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Scott W Dunning wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2014, at 10:10 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>
> You should be able to get this to the point of writing out five
> separate values, which are the original five digits. Each one is worth
> 10 of the previous value. At every step, do
On Feb 7, 2014, at 10:10 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> You should be able to get this to the point of writing out five
> separate values, which are the original five digits. Each one is worth
> 10 of the previous value. At every step, do both halves of the
> division.
What do you mean by at ea
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Scott W Dunning wrote:
> So, if I use the five digit # 5, bar = 5000, and foo = 0 because there
> is no remainder after dividing by 10? Does it make a difference weather foo
> or bar are written first?
That's correct. It'll be more visible if you use a five-di
On Saturday, February 8, 2014 10:35:49 AM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Saturday, February 8, 2014 10:14:10 AM UTC+5:30, Scott W Dunning wrote:
>
> > I have a question that was a part of my homework and I got it correct but
> > the teacher urged me to do it using the % sign rather than subtra
On Feb 7, 2014, at 10:10 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> It might be easiest to think in terms of a single "divide into
> quotient and remainder" operation. Let's leave aside
> weeks/days/hours/minutes/seconds and split a number up into its
> digits. (This is actually not as useless as you might thi
On Saturday, February 8, 2014 7:05:49 AM UTC+2, Rustom Mody wrote:
> On Saturday, February 8, 2014 10:14:10 AM UTC+5:30, Scott W Dunning wrote:
>
> > I have a question that was a part of my homework
> > and I got it correct but the teacher urged me to do it using the
> > % sign rather than subtr
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Scott W Dunning wrote:
> I have a question that was a part of my homework and I got it correct but
> the teacher urged me to do it using the % sign rather than subtracting
> everything, for some reason I’m having issues getting it to calculate
> correctly.
Oh by th
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Scott W Dunning wrote:
> - This is what I’ve been working with. I get the correct answers for
> minutes and seconds then it goes to shit after that.
>
> seconds = raw_input("Enter the number of seconds:")
> seconds = int(seconds)
> minutes = seconds/60
> seconds =
On Saturday, February 8, 2014 10:14:10 AM UTC+5:30, Scott W Dunning wrote:
> I have a question that was a part of my homework and I got it correct but the
> teacher urged me to do it using the % sign rather than subtracting
> everything, for some reason I'm having issues getting it to calculate
I have a question that was a part of my homework and I got it correct but the
teacher urged me to do it using the % sign rather than subtracting everything,
for some reason I’m having issues getting it to calculate correctly. I’ll put
the question below, and what I originally had and below that
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