Check if this basic Python script is coded right
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Oct 26 13:55:12 EDT 2013
On 26/10/2013 18:36, HC wrote:
> I'm doing my first year in university and I need help with this basic assignment.
>
> Assignment: Write Python script that prints sum of cubes of numbers between 0-200 that are multiples of 3. 3^3+6^3+9^3+12^3....+198^3=?
>
> My script:
> count = 0
> answer = 0
>
> while count<200:
> if count%3==0:
> answer = answer + count**3
> count = count + 1
>
> print ("Result is: " +str(answer))
>
> Is it all okay?
>
> Regards
>
Simplify it by using a for loop with range(count) and you can also write
answer += count**3.
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