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    ALEKS will work on Ubuntu

    Hi all,

    Many of you are headed to school this month. Some portion of you will be asked to use a CBI program for math called ALEKS. ALEKS does not support Linux, but the program will work on...
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    Re: Debugging in python.

    Eric has a really nice debugger.
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    Poll: Re: Which has the better apps, KDE or GNOME?

    I use GNOME much of the time. However, Kile makes my LaTeX work a lot more pleasant and productive.
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    Poll: Re: Anyone else love the CLI?

    I use the terminal daily. However, I'm stuck on the GUI.
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    Re: Programming Challenge: February 9, 2007

    #!/usr/bin/env python


    """ programming challenge 9 feb """


    import random


    S = {3:'hearts', 2:'diamonds', 1:'spades', 0:'clubs'}
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    Re: Weekly programming challenge, 26 January

    Don't worry. I'm not going to declare myself the winner. Here's something I put together to demonstrate what I had in mind.

    #!/usr/bin/python


    """ Throws $5 at the powerball drawing using...
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    Re: Weekly programming challenge, 26 January

    The record level is in excess of $254,000,000. The exact amount escapes me right now.

    The amount the jackpot increases is a function of participation. It starts at $15,000,000

    I think so, but...
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    Re: Weekly programming challenge, 26 January

    lol Have you been talking to my wife?
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    Re: Weekly programming challenge, 26 January

    Yes! But the odds are very long.

    Meng has a good idea in doing the frequency count. There's a simple way to have the program open the page with the winning numbers using Python's urllib2 module....
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    Re: Weekly programming challenge, 26 January

    Clarification:

    What I had in mind when I wrote the challenge was this. Write a program that simulates a person that plays the Powerball lottery.

    The challenge, as I see it, comes from having...
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    Weekly programming challenge, 26 January

    Hi, everyone. I have the responsibility of managing this weeks programming challenge.

    This weeks challenge is open ended: you must create a program that plays the Powerball lottery. You can make...
  12. Re: Weekly Programming Challenge: Friday, Jan 19, 2007

    Here's my entry. It supports:
    addition
    subtraction
    multiplication
    division
    exponentiation
    parentheses
    factorials
  13. Re: Weekly Programming Challenge: Friday, Jan 19, 2007

    No, Phossal. Now that you've removed your code, I suppose I never will. Oh, well.
  14. Re: Weekly Programming Challenge: Friday, Jan 19, 2007

    Cleaned that little mess up. -2^2 yields -4 and -2^-2 yields -0.25. :biggrin:
  15. Re: Weekly Programming Challenge: Friday, Jan 19, 2007

    :frown: Yes, but now 6^-5 fails! Such is life.](*,)
  16. Re: Weekly Programming Challenge: Friday, Jan 19, 2007

    Fixed mine, too. Thanks Phossal, that sequence never occured to me. -5^6-2*3 now yields -15631.
  17. Re: Weekly Programming Challenge: Friday, Jan 19, 2007

    superseded by entry posted 24Jan.
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    Re: What is the best python editor?

    I'm not sure about best, but I use and like eric. It's free amd easy to use.
  19. Re: Weekly Programming Challenge: Friday, December 29, 2006

    Here's an entry with a couple of twists:
    it has it's own square root function
    it pickles the primes it finds for future runs of the program

    It takes any number of values and evaluates them. ...
  20. Re: Weekly Programming Challenge: Friday, Jan 5, 2006

    I'm late. ](*,) Here's my solution:



    #! /usr/bin/python
    """ problem module """


    import string
    import copy
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    Poll: Re: Do You Have a Pet ?

    Her name is Babe. She is a husky/shepard mix and is eighty-five pounds of unbridled affection, unless you're a cat.
  22. Poll: Re: In your opinion what is the biggest setback that is preventing Linux to widesprea

    Driver support. Linux needs it badly.
    How do I get my Palm device to play nice with Ubuntu?
    A screensaver that leaves a few CPU cycles for backgorund jobs
    iTunes
    quicktime
    Oh, did I mention...
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    Re: Coffee Mug--To Wash, or Not To Wash?

    Wash it. You could have made it a poll.
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    Re: What's your Favorite IDE?

    mucha,

    You can fix that gedit text indent thing; I have. I don't remember how right now. I'm at work (a windows environment](*,) ). If I recall correctly, you need to fiddle with

    ...
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    Re: Using tan(), sin() etc.

    What do I need to install?


    prh@phil-laptop:~$ man sin
    No manual entry for sin
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