bradleybooth12...@gmail.com via python.org asks: > A Friend is doing maths in University and has had some > coursework to do with python. > > The question is > > "Write a program that calculates how many positive integers > less than N are not divisible by 2,3 or 5. The user should be > prompted to supply the Number N. Demonstrate your program > output when the input N is your student id. (13006517) > > "The collatz process is as follows. Take a positive integer n > greater than 1. while n is greater than 1 repeat the following; > if N is even halve it and if N is odd multiply it by 3 and add > 1. The (Unsolved) collatz conjecture is that this process > always terminates. > > The user should be prompted to supply the number n, and your > program should build the list of values taken by sucessive > iteration of the algorithm, and print it out. For example, if 7 > is input your program should print the list > > [7,22,11,34,17,52,26,13,40,20,10,5,16,8,4,2,1] > > Demonstrate your program output for an input value consisting > of the number formed adding 10 to the last digit of your > student id. (13006517)" > > Any help would be appreciated
What has A Friend written so far? Where are you stuck? -- Neil Cerutti On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:40 PM, <bradleybooth12...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > A Friend is doing maths in University and has had some coursework to do with > python. > > The question is > > "Write a program that calculates how many positive integers less than N are > not divisible by 2,3 or 5. The user should be prompted to supply the Number > N. Demonstrate your program output when the input N is your student id. > (13006517) > > "The collatz process is as follows. Take a positive integer n greater than 1. > while n is greater than 1 repeat the following; if N is even halve it and if > N is odd multiply it by 3 and add 1. The (Unsolved) collatz conjecture is > that this process always terminates. > > The user should be prompted to supply the number n, and your program should > build the list of values taken by sucessive iteration of the algorithm, and > print it out. For example, if 7 is input your program should print the list > > [7,22,11,34,17,52,26,13,40,20,10,5,16,8,4,2,1] > > Demonstrate your program output for an input value consisting of the number > formed adding 10 to the last digit of your student id. (13006517)" > > Any help would be appreciated > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- Neil Cerutti <mr.cerutti+pyt...@gmail.com> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
