Dumb python questions
Joal Heagney
s713221 at student.gu.edu.au
Fri Aug 17 10:15:26 EDT 2001
Paul Rubin wrote:
>
> Joal Heagney <s713221 at student.gu.edu.au> writes:
> > Out of curiosity, is there a reason (e.g. curiosity on your part?)
> > you're not using:
> >
> > N = 100
> > sum = N*(N+1)/2
> >
> > which returns the sum of the first 100 integers much more quickly?
>
> It was just a simple example to illustrate my question about how the
> range function worked. Of course I wouldn't code it that way in real
> life.
I kinda thought that was what it was. *evil grin* And I should HOPE not!
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