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Yeah, Python makes this problem pretty trivial
True, I switched from JavaScript just to get it done.. did find a pitfall though.
third = math.pow(second, 2) + first
will produce weird numbers from the 8th iteration.
instead must use: second*second + first
That's because math.pow() will use floating-point numbers. It is more typically used when the power is a real number, not (necessarily) an integer.
math.pow()
To raise integers to an integer power, use the exponentiation operator **:
**
third = second**2 + first
(Of course to compute a square of x, x*x works just fine as well.)
x
x*x
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Yeah, Python makes this problem pretty trivial
True, I switched from JavaScript just to get it done.. did find a pitfall though.
will produce weird numbers from the 8th iteration.
instead must use: second*second + first
That's because
math.pow()will use floating-point numbers. It is more typically used when the power is a real number, not (necessarily) an integer.To raise integers to an integer power, use the exponentiation operator
**:(Of course to compute a square of
x,x*xworks just fine as well.)