Help on a summative formula

[Emile van Sebille]

"Emile van Sebille" <emile at fenx.com> wrote in message
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> "Ahimsa Consulting" <ahimsa at inext.co.za> wrote in message
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> > Hi all
> > Need newbie level assistance on putting together a formula. I am trying
to
> > work out the phrasing for reading user input and adding each input to
the
> > previous input until the total is >= 150. I thought for a while the
> > Fibonacci series might help since that passes the value of one element
and
> > adds it to a previous value, so it worked fine for the first two inputs
> but
> > then went off at a tangent.
> > Any thoughts please.
> > Thanks
> > Andrew
> >
> >
>
> total = 0
> while total < 150:
>     total += raw_input("Enter a number: ")
>

Ooops, forgot to paste in the tested version:

>>> while total < 150:
...     total += int(raw_input("Enter a number: "))