Re: [Tutor] While condition

2017-03-17 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 17/03/17 14:46, Aaliyah Ebrahim wrote: > Hi, in my code below, why is it returning a value that is greater than 1200 > if my condition is that the value should be less than 1200? Your condition is that it be less than 1200 when it enters the loop body. That means it will *always* be 1200 or gre

[Tutor] While condition

2017-03-17 Thread Aaliyah Ebrahim
Hi, in my code below, why is it returning a value that is greater than 1200 if my condition is that the value should be less than 1200? Thank you. def sum_list(val): list_sum = 0 n =0 mylist = [] while list_sum < val: n = n+1 term = n**2 list_sum = list_sum