Question

So how many of you got caught with the ceiling_test?

It took me a while to figure out why my answer was 1 less than it should be.

:-)

Answer 1

my answer is not the totally correct one and I've not figured out why - but since I'm horrible at math, I'm not surprised.

Answer 2

Yeah. Maths is definitely not my strong point....

Answer 3

I'm curious what approach you used to finally resolve. There are two problems with the write-up of part 2. The first is that there is no "ceiling" function. The second is that the test cases supplied explicitly use integer division.

Answer 4

There is a math.ceil function if you import math ( http://docs.python.org/2/library/math.html) so you can use that. I had a hard time getting the order correct in the variable to get it to get the right answer when using my multiadd function.

Answer 5

Yes, as Susan says there is a math.ceil function. I simply divided by 19.0 so it returns a float. It took quite a while for me to spot that I was exactly 1 out. :-)