On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > 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).
The task was "calculates". If the task was "returns", then the lookup table would be correct. :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
