This works for me, both in Julia 0.3 and 0.4
julia> function fib_sum_2(x,y,z)
sum(x:x:z) + sum(y:y:z) - sum(lcm(x,y):lcm(x,y):z)
end
fib_sum_2 (generic function with 1 method)
julia> fib_sum_2(3,5,999)
233168
What happens if you restart Julia and try again?
On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 4:34:11 PM UTC+2, James Byars wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am an education doctoral student who is a self-taught stats and
> programming person. My primary coding and stats experience is with R. I
> have started to attempt Julia and was using the Project Euler questions as
> a way to teach myself the language structure, types, and specifying
> functions. I have been really drawn to Julia because of all the great
> conversations about the language on the YouTube channel. There have been
> several great repositories that share coding examples for each of the
> problems (although Project Euler wants everybody to do it on their own)
> which have been tremendously helpful.
>
> One of the proposed solutions for Problem #1 have this structure:
> println(sum(3:3:999) + sum(5:5:999) - sum(15:15:999))
>
> I am trying to make a function of this type of problem so I am not bounded
> by specifying each number every time. So I adapted the solution to the
> following format:
>
> *function fib_sum_2(x,y,z)*
> * sum(x:x:z) + sum(y:y:z) - sum(lcm(x,y):lcm(x,y):z)*
> *end*
>
> However, when I try to run the function (fib_sum_2(3,5,999)) I get the
> following error:
>
> *type: fib_sum_2: in apply, expected Function, got Int64
> while loading In[140], in expression starting on line 1
>
> in fib_sum_2 at In[137]:2*
>
>
> I did attempt to google this problem, but still could not find a source that
> really explained the problem. I understand that this is a really newbie
> question and thank you to everyone for their patience and any assistance. If
> anybody can correct my error or provide resources that might help me with
> future Euler Project problems that would be great. I feel that I am missing
> something terribly easy with Julia, but thank you all for any help. Also, I
> am using IJulia for reference. If I have posted this question in error, can
> anybody direct me to the right forum?
>
>
> With Regards,
>
>
> James
>
>
