Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'assign': 0.07; 'subject:two': 0.07; 'python': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'successive': 0.09; 'itself.': 0.11; 'language': 0.14; 'advance.': 0.15; '24,': 0.16; 'progression': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:Problems': 0.16; 'subject:questions': 0.16; 'subject:these': 0.16; 'using,': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'integer': 0.17; 'specify': 0.17; '(or': 0.18; 'variable': 0.20; 'programming': 0.23; 'elements': 0.23; 'tried': 0.25; 'header:In- Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'arithmetic': 0.29; 'factor': 0.29; 'far,': 0.29; 'version,': 0.30; 'code': 0.31; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.32; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'another': 0.33; 'thanks': 0.34; 'same.': 0.35; 'sequence': 0.35; 'list.': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'but': 0.36; '12,': 0.36; 'problems': 0.36; 'two': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'mark': 0.38; 'positive': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; "you've": 0.61; 'distance': 0.62; 'between': 0.63; 'sum': 0.66; '2.an': 0.84; 'factors': 0.95 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Problems on these two questions Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 02:09:48 +0000 References: <400c615f-4d93-4b8b-85ec-1bb4c47e30fe@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-186-199.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 In-Reply-To: <400c615f-4d93-4b8b-85ec-1bb4c47e30fe@googlegroups.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 121118-1, 18/11/2012), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 23 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1353290894 news.xs4all.nl 6860 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:34147 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:33521 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.