On Saturday, October 26, 2013 11:50:33 PM UTC+5:30, MRAB wrote: > On 26/10/2013 18:36, HC wrote: > > I'm doing my first year in university and I need help with this basic > > assignment. > > > > Assignment: Write Python script that prints sum of cubes of numbers between > > 0-200 that are multiples of 3. 3^3+6^3+9^3+12^3....+198^3=? <code snipped> > > > > Is it all okay? > > > Just one small point: the assignment says that the numbers should be in > the range 0-200, but the loop's condition is count<200 it's excluding > 200, so the numbers will actually be in the range 0-199. > > However, as 200 isn't a multiple of 3, it won't affect the result, but > in another assignment it might. > > (For the record, this is known as an "off-by-one" error.)
So is an off-by-one error that did not happen an off-by-an-off-by-one error? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
