Thank you. I said this in the post below, but is this an issue with Julia going forward? The need to restart.
On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 10:50:28 AM UTC-4, Kristoffer Carlsson wrote: > > 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 >> >>
