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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Program to find consecutive integers |
| Date | 2017-03-12 13:29 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87d1dmwrme.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
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insane_goat <nobody@nothing.net> writes:
> On 2017-03-10, Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
>> insane_goat <nobody@nothing.net> writes:
>>
>>> On 2017-03-10, Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> wrote:
>>>> On 2017-03-10, insane_goat <nobody@nothing.net> wrote:
>>>>> On 2017-03-10, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
>>>>>> Umm.... you're going to have to give a more complete description of the
>>>>>> problem statement before I, at any rate, will want to think about your
>>>>>> program.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To me, producing consecutive integers boils down to
>>>>>>
>>>>>> for (i = start; i <= end; i++)
>>>>>> printf("%\n", i);
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry. I was in a bit of a rush.
>>>>>
>>>>> I meant consecutive integers which add up to the target.
>>>>
>>>> The following sets of consecutive integers add up to the target 15:
>>>> {1,2,3,4,5}
>>>> {4,5,6}
>>>> {7,8}
>>>> {15}
>>>>
>>>> Your algorithm produces the set {1,2,3,4,5},
>>>> Joe's algorithm produces the set {15}.
>>>>
>>>> Why is your solution better than Joe's ?
>>>
>>> Because it can find consecutive integers adding up to e.g. 296, which cannot
>>> be produced by starting from 1.
>>
>> 296 is the sum of the sequence (296). The full statement of your
>> problem will either include some restrictions (for example the sequence
>> must be longer than 1
>
> Yes, it was this requirement.
... and positive integers only.
<snip>
>> Yours is not really a C question, but a C-related question is why are
>> you using C? (Not a trick question, I'm genuinely interested.)
>
> I decided it was an interesting 20-minute thing to do when I was bored. That's
> all.
That makes sense. I tend to use a language with a REPL for this sort of
"playing about" code because you can experiment more freely. (That and
you usually get large integers built-in, not that that's likely to be
significant in this case.)
--
Ben.
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Program to find consecutive integers insane_goat <nobody@nothing.net> - 2017-03-10 04:21 +0000
Re: Program to find consecutive integers Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2017-03-09 22:26 -0700
Re: Program to find consecutive integers insane_goat <nobody@nothing.net> - 2017-03-10 06:48 +0000
Re: Program to find consecutive integers Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2017-03-10 08:18 +0000
Re: Program to find consecutive integers insane_goat <nobody@nothing.net> - 2017-03-10 08:48 +0000
Re: Program to find consecutive integers Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-03-10 10:38 +0000
Re: Program to find consecutive integers insane_goat <nobody@nothing.net> - 2017-03-12 13:15 +0000
Re: Program to find consecutive integers Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-03-12 13:29 +0000
Re: Program to find consecutive integers raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2017-03-14 07:49 +0000
Re: Program to find consecutive integers Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2017-03-10 05:12 -0800
Re: Program to find consecutive integers jameskuyper@verizon.net - 2017-03-10 07:16 -0800
Re: Program to find consecutive integers Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2017-03-10 19:20 +0000
Re: Program to find consecutive integers James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-03-10 15:21 -0500
Re: Program to find consecutive integers Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2017-03-10 20:36 +0000
Re: Program to find consecutive integers insane_goat <nobody@nothing.net> - 2017-03-12 13:19 +0000
Gotta keep up with the times (Was: Program to find consecutive integers) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2017-03-12 13:25 +0000
Re: Gotta keep up with the times (Was: Program to find consecutive integers) Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-03-12 08:11 -0700
Re: Gotta keep up with the times (Was: Program to find consecutive integers) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2017-03-12 15:53 +0000
Re: Gotta keep up with the times (Was: Program to find consecutive integers) Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-03-12 10:50 -0700
Re: Gotta keep up with the times (Was: Program to find consecutive integers) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2017-03-12 18:25 +0000
Re: Gotta keep up with the times (Was: Program to find consecutive integers) Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2017-03-12 16:20 -0700
Re: Gotta keep up with the times gordonb.g2pqz@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2017-03-14 01:09 -0500
Re: Gotta keep up with the times raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2017-03-14 07:43 +0000
Re: Program to find consecutive integers "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-03-12 10:28 -0400
Re: Program to find consecutive integers Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2017-03-11 07:42 +0000
Re: Program to find consecutive integers jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2017-03-10 10:21 +0000
Re: Program to find consecutive integers Nathan Wagner <nw@hydaspes.if.org> - 2017-03-10 22:07 +0000
Re: Program to find consecutive integers Nathan Wagner <nw@hydaspes.if.org> - 2017-03-10 22:20 +0000
Re: Program to find consecutive integers jr <creature.eternal@gmail.com> - 2017-03-10 23:49 -0800
Re: Program to find consecutive integers jt@toerring.de (Jens Thoms Toerring) - 2017-03-11 23:38 +0000
Re: Program to find consecutive integers Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-04-16 21:18 -0700
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