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Re: loop

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Date 2014-03-24 21:58 +1100
Subject Re: loop
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> Once in college, we were given assembly programming assignments. The
> textbook defined an imagined 18-bit CPU and an instruction set.
>
> A fellow student was given the task to write a subroutine that
> calculates the factorial of the argument. He went through the trouble of
> creating a loop with multiplication etc. I argued (in vain) that his
> solution is "wrong" from all angles; he should have implemented his
> subroutine with a simple lookup table since 18 bits can only take a
> handful of input values (0 through 8).

The task was "calculates". If the task was "returns", then the lookup
table would be correct. :)

ChrisA

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loop pabloeruggeri@gmail.com - 2014-03-23 17:35 -0700
  Re: loop MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-03-24 00:50 +0000
    Re: loop pabloeruggeri@gmail.com - 2014-03-23 17:57 -0700
  Re: loop Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-24 11:52 +1100
    Re: loop Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-24 09:47 +0200
      Re: loop Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-03-24 09:40 +0000
        Re: loop Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-24 12:04 +0200
          Re: loop Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-24 21:58 +1100
  Re: loop Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-03-24 00:56 +0000
  Re: loop anton <bupphairodazz@yandex.ru> - 2014-03-23 17:59 -0700
    Re: loop Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-03-23 22:30 -0500
  Re: loop Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-03-24 13:31 +1100

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