Question

Has anyone completed the exercise on page 16 of the course textbook? My head hurts.

Answer 1

the finger excercise??

Answer 2

yes, the finger exercise. Been trying hard using mod == and != etc but no success

Answer 3

windows, unix, mac?? idle, ipython?? the documentation should be on your computer - F1 while working in idle. The Python mod operator is %.

spoiler:
http://dpaste.com/810243/

online docs:
http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#numeric-types-int-float-long-complex

Answer 4

thanks, I understand the operators i think. Its actually getting the code (or maths) to solve this problem is what I am struggling with. In english (not code), how do I solve it?

Answer 5

a number is odd if it cannot be evenly divided by 2
so if you divided an od number by two there is always a remainder or
the mod operator returns the remainder of the division. so any oddNbr % 2 will produce an integer greaqter than zero. so you are given three numbers
1st you have to test if each us odd
when you test a number if it is odd you have to somehow keep track of that
when you are done testing for oddness
if none of them were odd you print a statement to that effect
if any of them are odd you have to figure out which one is the biggest/largest
after you have figured out which one is largest, print it

Answer 6

Thank you kindly. you have confirmed I was on the right track. My trouble is actually writing the code. This is something I need to practice. Thanks for the spoiler alert as I want to try this solo first.

Answer 7

Cracked it. Thanks