Creating a Program to Decompose a Number and Run a Function on that Decomposition

[CTSB01]

On Thursday, July 18, 2013 6:12:52 PM UTC-4, Gary Herron wrote:
> On 07/18/2013 02:57 PM, CTSB01 wrote:
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> > On Thursday, July 18, 2013 5:12:08 AM UTC-4, Joshua Landau wrote:
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> >> On 18 July 2013 00:58, CTSB01 <scott.moore270 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>> Please let me know if this is unclear.  I will certainly continue revising until it makes sense to those reading.
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> >> Can you summarize what your question is? Leave aside the details of
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> >> the function, just explain what thing in particular you aren't able
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> >> to do.
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> > Hi Joshua,
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> > I actually managed to find a certain block like this:
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> >   def phi_m(x, m):
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> > ...   rtn = []
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> > ...   for n2 in range(0, len(x) * m - 2:
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> That 'for' line has miss-matched parentheses.
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> > ...     n = n2 / m
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> > ...     r = n2 - n * m
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> > ...     rtn.append(m * x[n] + r * (x[n + 1] - x[n]))
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> > ...     print 'n2 =', n2, ': n =', n, ' r =' , r, ' rtn =', rtn
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> > ...   rtn
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> > However, I am getting the error "expected an indented block" on line two.  Any idea why?
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> -- 
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> Dr. Gary Herron
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> Department of Computer Science
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> DigiPen Institute of Technology
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> (425) 895-4418

Hi Gary,

I fixed that issue, but I still end up with the same error.  Specifically:

		      
  File "<pyshell#9>", line 2
    ...   rtn = []
    ^
IndentationError: expected an indented block