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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:07:35 -0500
Subject: Re: Newbie - Trying to Help a Friend
From: Neil Cerutti <mr.cerutti@gmail.com>
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bradleybooth12345@gmail.com via python.org asks:
> A Friend is doing maths in University and has had some
> coursework to do with python.
>
> The question is
>
> "Write a program that calculates how many positive integers
> less than N are not divisible by 2,3 or 5. The user should be
> prompted to supply the Number N. Demonstrate your program
> output when the input N is your student id. (13006517)
>
> "The collatz process is as follows. Take a positive integer n
> greater than 1. while n is greater than 1 repeat the following;
> if N is even halve it and if N is odd multiply it by 3 and add
> 1. The (Unsolved) collatz conjecture is that this process
> always terminates.
>
> The user should be prompted to supply the number n, and your
> program should build the list of values taken by sucessive
> iteration of the algorithm, and print it out. For example, if 7
> is input your program should print the list
>
> [7,22,11,34,17,52,26,13,40,20,10,5,16,8,4,2,1]
>
> Demonstrate your program output for an input value consisting
> of the number formed adding 10 to the last digit of your
> student id. (13006517)"
>
> Any help would be appreciated

What has A Friend written so far? Where are you stuck?

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Neil Cerutti

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:40 PM,  <bradleybooth12345@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A Friend is doing maths in University and has had some coursework to do w=
ith python.
>
> The question is
>
> "Write a program that calculates how many positive integers less than N a=
re not divisible by 2,3 or 5. The user should be prompted to supply the Num=
ber N. Demonstrate your program output when the input N is your student id.=
 (13006517)
>
> "The collatz process is as follows. Take a positive integer n greater tha=
n 1. while n is greater than 1 repeat the following; if N is even halve it =
and if N is odd multiply it by 3 and add 1. The (Unsolved) collatz conjectu=
re is that this process always terminates.
>
> The user should be prompted to supply the number n, and your program shou=
ld build the list of values taken by sucessive iteration of the algorithm, =
and print it out. For example, if 7 is input your program should print the =
list
>
> [7,22,11,34,17,52,26,13,40,20,10,5,16,8,4,2,1]
>
> Demonstrate your program output for an input value consisting of the numb=
er formed adding 10 to the last digit of your student id. (13006517)"
>
> Any help would be appreciated
> --
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list



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Neil Cerutti <mr.cerutti+python@gmail.com>