Programming intro book ch1 and ch2 (Windows/Python 3) - Request For Comments

[Mensanator]

On Dec 19, 12:21 am, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al... at start.no> wrote:
> * Mensanator:
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> >> That said, and a bit off-tangent to your comment's main thrust, the time spent
> >> on coding that repeated-division-by-2 optimization would, I think, be better
> >> spent googling "Collatz Conjecture"  --  avoiding writing /any/ code. ;-)
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> > Ha! I know more about Collatz than you can ever find by Googling!
> > And how did I achieve that? By writing such code. Be a good boy and
> > maybe I'll show you how to do Ulam's Spiral with Turtle Graphics.
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> It's probably good for you that you know so much about Collatz.
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> I fail to see the relevance to anything.

No kidding. Here let me explain it:

You said my time would be better spent googling "Collatz Conjecture".

I said I know more than can be found by googling. Therefore,
it follows that my time could NOT be better spent googling.

Thus, your staement is shown to be false.

QED

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> Cheers & hth.,
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> - Alf