Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: mod calculation Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:55:22 -0800 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <72e972d6-cb28-4e1c-93fb-cc58ee56673e@p7g2000pre.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: Z2l1DcCELS0rATq8NqV4Sw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:9958 On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:09:23 -0800 (PST), Chad wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >I thought I had the wrong data file, so I downloaded again. However, >the numbers are the same. I repeat. You have to PARTITION the problem. Is your program giving you wrong answers relative to what you expect or are you in agreement the program and you both disagree with the instructor? To answer that question you must manually solve the problem using your understanding of what the question is. If the latter, then nothing you do to the program will help (except perhaps an evolutionary algorithm to see the profs results). The problem is in your understanding of the problem. That has nothing to do with the computer or the computer program. You will have to solve it with social means, e.g. my asking fellow student, or the TA how they interpreted the problem, or tell them what you thought and wait for the irresistible urge to overtake them to correct you. I know as I student I would have sooner cut off my arm than visit a prof or TA to ask a favour, so try a fellow student. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com I can't come to bed just yet. Somebody is wrong on the Internet.