Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk>: > On 24/03/2014 07:47, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> for i in [ 100, 1000, 10000, 100000, 1000000, 10000000, 100000000 ]: > > Why the overhead of creating a list when you could use a tuple? :)
Once in college, we were given assembly programming assignments. The textbook defined an imagined 18-bit CPU and an instruction set. A fellow student was given the task to write a subroutine that calculates the factorial of the argument. He went through the trouble of creating a loop with multiplication etc. I argued (in vain) that his solution is "wrong" from all angles; he should have implemented his subroutine with a simple lookup table since 18 bits can only take a handful of input values (0 through 8). Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
