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Actually both of you are correct - the problem description is wrong:
"which given a string will output the error rate of the printer as a string"
I simply assumed the problem meant returning the string, but the description says "output".
Cause generally it's good practice to add a newline when you've finished printing something in the terminal.
Why would you add a newline to the output when it's not mentioned anywhere?
It would be good to specify in the description that the result does not need a newline character.
Same for me. Three solutions very similar to other solutions showed here and still got timed out. Odd.
Dang roasted (same thing happened to me don't worry).
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My approach was reading a bit about optional arguments in a function. You could start there and work your way to the solution!
Nice! Learned something new today!
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I am trying to avoid a nested loop, because it keeps timing out, with what I currently have... And one of comments here, are of someone mentioning their code has two loops, and I think the creator of this kata, mentioning that nested loops will cause the code to time out, basically.
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Yes. It's equivalent to
while ( true ) { ... }
ordo { ... } while ( true );
, but without block level scoping. When those loops are compiled into machine code, they're reduced to an unconditional jump instruction, i.e.goto
.Why are you trying to avoid a nested loop anyway?
FYI, when you post code to discourse, bracket it with block code formatting so it's easier to read.
I think this kata should contain a hint in the description, about when a number can be expressed as the sum of consecutive numbers, to be ranked as 7kyu.