On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Baba <raoul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi News 123, > > Ok i'm getting closer. I am able to write code that will output values > that can be bought in exact quantity (truelist) and values that cannot > be bought in exact quantities. > > For a range up to 29 i get this: > true [6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 20, 21, 24, 26, 27, 29] > false [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 22, 23, 25, > 28] > > the sixth value that passes the test of having an exact solution is 20 > so that would mean that the last number i got that cannot be bought in > exact quantity is 19 > > that doesn't seem quite right, does it?
It's not. You're not just trying to find the sixth value that can be bought in exact quantity, but a sequence of six values that can all be bought in exact quantity. The integers [6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 20] are not sequential. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
