Re: [Tutor] Finding a nearest perfect cube

2013-11-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 07/11/2013 22:25, donsuni wrote: Hi, I am new to python and i have to write a following code without using any inbuilt function or a for loop. Only while and if loops are allowed. If i input a number, i should get a perfect cube nearest to it. For eg: if input=4, output=8 input=8, output=27

Re: [Tutor] Finding a nearest perfect cube

2013-11-08 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On 07/11/2013 22:25, donsuni wrote: Hi, I am new to python and i have to write a following code without using any inbuilt function or a for loop. Only while and if loops are allowed. This is confusing. What is an

Re: [Tutor] Finding a nearest perfect cube

2013-11-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 08/11/2013 10:12, Joel Goldstick wrote: On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On 07/11/2013 22:25, donsuni wrote: Hi, I am new to python and i have to write a following code without using any inbuilt function or a for loop. Only while and if loops are

Re: [Tutor] Finding a nearest perfect cube

2013-11-08 Thread Alan Gauld
On 08/11/13 10:12, Joel Goldstick wrote: inbuilt function or a for loop. Only while and if loops are allowed. This is confusing. What is an 'if loop'? I'm not sure why but this is a common mistake by beginners. I get a lot of emails about my tutorial that refer to if loops even though I

[Tutor] sequence of elements problem

2013-11-08 Thread donsuni
Hi, I have a problem in python which is kind of tricky. if i give a sequence of numbers, i should get another sequence of numbers such that the the elements exceeds previous element in the list. For eg seq_num([3,2,5,7])=[3,5,7] since 5 is 3, and 75 seq_num([1,2,3,4])=[1,2,3,4] since 2 is 1,

Re: [Tutor] sequence of elements problem

2013-11-08 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 08/11/2013 12:54, donsuni wrote: Hi, I have a problem in python which is kind of tricky. if i give a sequence of numbers, i should get another sequence of numbers such that the the elements exceeds previous element in the list. For eg seq_num([3,2,5,7])=[3,5,7] since 5 is 3, and 75

Re: [Tutor] sequence of elements problem

2013-11-08 Thread Dave Angel
On Fri, 8 Nov 2013 04:54:53 -0800 (PST), donsuni dons...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a problem in python which is kind of tricky. Your wording is kind of tricky. and so on without using any inbuilt functions. But you use len() and range(). Has your class taught about generators or list

Re: [Tutor] sequence of elements problem

2013-11-08 Thread Danny Yoo
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 4:54 AM, donsuni dons...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a problem in python which is kind of tricky. if i give a sequence of numbers, i should get another sequence of numbers such that the the elements exceeds previous element in the list. For eg Have you written any

Re: [Tutor] Geometric sequence

2013-11-08 Thread Peter O'Doherty
To the people who kindly replied to my question: many thanks! On 10/31/2013 06:29 PM, Danny Yoo wrote: As an aside: It shouldn't be too bad to write a generator for the geometric series, so that we can pick out the terms on-demand. # def geometric(base): ...