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Re: Problems on these two questions

From Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject Re: Problems on these two questions
Date 2012-11-19 02:09 +0000
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On 19/11/2012 01:52, su29090 wrote:
>
> I all of the other problems but I have issues with these:
>
> 1.Given a positive integer  n , assign True to  is_prime if  n has no factors other than  1 and itself. (Remember,  m is a factor of  n if  m divides  n evenly.)
>
> 2.An  arithmetic progression is a sequence of numbers in which the distance (or difference) between any two successive numbers if the same. This in the sequence  1, 3, 5, 7, ... , the distance is 2 while in the sequence  6, 12, 18, 24, ... , the distance is 6.
>
>   Given the positive integer  distance and the positive integer  n , associate the variable  sum with the sum of the elements of the arithmetic progression from  1 to  n with distance  distance . For example, if  distance is 2 and  n is  10 , then  sum would be associated with  26 because  1+3+5+7+9 = 25 .
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

Please specify what programming language and OS you're using, what code 
you've tried so far, and what problems if any you're having.  If you're 
using Python please give us the version, if not please try another 
mailing list.

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.

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Problems on these two questions su29090 <129km09@gmail.com> - 2012-11-18 17:52 -0800
  Re: Problems on these two questions Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-11-19 02:09 +0000
  Re: Problems on these two questions su29090 <129km09@gmail.com> - 2012-11-18 18:15 -0800
    Re: Problems on these two questions Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-11-18 21:33 -0500
  Re: Problems on these two questions Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-11-18 21:18 -0500
  Re: Problems on these two questions Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-11-19 13:23 +1100
  Re: Problems on these two questions Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-11-19 18:15 -0500
    Re: Problems on these two questions Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-11-20 15:02 +0000
  Re: Problems on these two questions Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-11-19 18:16 -0500
  Re: Problems on these two questions Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2012-11-19 20:52 -0500
  Re: Problems on these two questions Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-11-19 23:32 -0700

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