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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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...
Eric has a really nice debugger.
I use GNOME much of the time. However, Kile makes my LaTeX work a lot more pleasant and productive.
I use the terminal daily. However, I'm stuck on the GUI.
#!/usr/bin/env python
""" programming challenge 9 feb """
import random
S = {3:'hearts', 2:'diamonds', 1:'spades', 0:'clubs'}
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...
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...
lol Have you been talking to my wife?
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....
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...
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...
Here's my entry. It supports:
addition
subtraction
multiplication
division
exponentiation
parentheses
factorials
No, Phossal. Now that you've removed your code, I suppose I never will. Oh, well.
Cleaned that little mess up. -2^2 yields -4 and -2^-2 yields -0.25. :biggrin:
:frown: Yes, but now 6^-5 fails! Such is life.](*,)
Fixed mine, too. Thanks Phossal, that sequence never occured to me. -5^6-2*3 now yields -15631.
superseded by entry posted 24Jan.
I'm not sure about best, but I use and like eric. It's free amd easy to use.
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. ...
I'm late. ](*,) Here's my solution:
#! /usr/bin/python
""" problem module """
import string
import copy
Her name is Babe. She is a husky/shepard mix and is eighty-five pounds of unbridled affection, unless you're a cat.
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...
Wash it. You could have made it a poll.
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
...
What do I need to install?
prh@phil-laptop:~$ man sin
No manual entry for sin