Re: [Tutor] Quick Programming Question

2015-10-02 Thread Alan Gauld
On 02/10/15 17:41, Jared Johnson via Tutor wrote: "A pentagonal number is defined as n(3n - 1)/2 for n = 1,2 etc. Write a function with the following header that returns a pentagonal number: def getPentagonalNumber(n): It's asking you to write a function that returns the result of the equat

[Tutor] Quick Programming Question

2015-10-02 Thread Jared Johnson via Tutor
I've been stuck on this for a while now and was wondering if you could help. The question is: "A pentagonal number is defined as n(3n - 1)/2 for n = 1,2 etc. So, the first few numbers are 1, 5, 12, 22 etc. Write a function with the following header that returns a pentagonal number: def getPenta