Jason wrote: > 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:
Does non-Dutchness require or permit bugs like > instead of >= or are you merely having a braino? > ... 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
