Tom_chicollegeboy a écrit : (snip) > As you see my program must use recursion.
It's conceptually easier to express using recursions - but every recursion-based algorithm can be rewritten to use iteration (and vice-versa). > I came up with this idea but I am not sure if its right or are there > any minor errors that I can easily fix: > > def bears (n): > if n==42: > return True > if n%5==0: > bears(n-42) You want: return bears(n - 42) > if n%2==0: > bears(n/2) idem > if n%3==0 or n%4==0: > one = (n%10) > two = ((n%100)/10) > if one!=0 and two!=0: > bears(n-(one*two)) idem > return False > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list