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Nancy Melucci
Courses Plus Student 35,157 PointsUnclear about the task
I am embarrassed to admit this but I can't figure out what the task is requesting, especially with the hint about using slices. It says nothing about how to use a tuple. I can't figure out how to set it up for a product. Maybe someone can give me a hint?
It looks something like what Prof Love does with the add function about mid-way through the preceding video...this one.
def add(*nums):
total = 0
for num in nums:
total += nums
return total
I see the pattern but I don't see the use of tuples, or how to integrate slices. I am hoping not to hit a wall here. The fact that I am clueless about this is not making me optimistic.
3 Answers
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 PointsHint #1: No, you do NOT need to use slice to solve this challenge, and I personally think there's no point in using slice here.
Hint #2: In the add function, the use of tuple is here.
for num in nums:
total += nums
it loops through each item in the nums tuple, and add 'em to the total
Hint #3. the multiply function is extremely similar to the add function. But it's important to set the total's initial value to 1 instead of 0, otherwise total would always be equals to 0 no matter how many multiplications are performed.
hope it helps.
john larson
16,594 PointsThanks for that William. Good hints without giving the answer.
Simin Hajizadeh
3,072 PointsI wrote the program as below:
def multiply(*args): total = 1 for item in args: total = total *item return total
Bryan Castillo
2,484 PointsCan someone explain this code challenge and its purpose ? the more I continue the more i get lost. Really hard for me right now
Nancy Melucci
Courses Plus Student 35,157 PointsNancy Melucci
Courses Plus Student 35,157 PointsHere's the challenge...I don't know if you can see it, and I had no code because I am stumped.
"Let's play with the *args pattern. Create a function named multiply that takes any number of arguments. Return the product (multiplied value) of all of the supplied arguments. The type of argument shouldn't matter. Slices might come in handy for this one."