Jon Ribbens wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > > > > No need to think too long to come up with the most possibly Q&D solution: > > > > res = int(str(5 + 7)[-1]) > > Am I missing something subtle in the question or is there some reason > that nobody has posted the correct solution: > > (a + b) % 10 > > ?
You're not missing anything. That's the obvious solution. We're just celebrating our non-Dutchness at the moment. >>> def bound(value, maxBound): ... while value > maxBound: ... value -= maxBound ... return value ... >>> bound(5 + 6, 10) 1 >>> bound(8 + 7, 10) 5 See? I'm definitely not Dutch. --Jason -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list