I've been struggling quite a bit with the Euler Project problem number 3. This is my code: x = 600851475143 y = [] def find_the_prime(): for number in range(1, x): if (number % x == 0): y.append(number) print(max(y)) I do not quite get why my list continues to be e...

I have been programming for a year or so but at a very basic level. I am practicing my skills using exercism.io. I am trying to pass the first unit test and I was wondering if anyone could help me out with what I need without fully giving me the answer. @Test public void testTransformOneValue(...

I wanted creating a 'Whats on your mind' kind of page..so i made the database and also the page to post. but i am using jQuery to post so i want it to be in a way that the page fetching from the database would be updated automatically on post..i was able to do this too...using setInterval method...

I have URLs I am trying to rewrite using apache's mod_rewrite so that authorizations work correctly. Thus I need to be able to use RegEx to match a specific pattern: baseurl/DOiConTainCaps/TheRestOfTheURL I need it to result in 3 matches baseurl/ DOiConTainCaps (Only if there is a capital le...

I'm looking for the right algorithm to solve a specific problem. I hope that there are known algorithms that can be used. The problem definition Given a set of 'options' (~10) A session is defined as a series of events that occur one after the other. At each event in the session the algorithm...

hello all i need a little help im close but i cant quite get the syntax i want on this code can anyone help me i am trying to set a javascript timer to change the image of the background over time using an if statement tree that changes a number in the function name that i want to call but i cant...

I have a line of code in shouldChangeCharactersInRange. I want to how I can break down this code. return ([[string stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:characterSet] length] > 0); What I want to do is add an if statement instead of having this on 1 line.

I have this code that randomly selects a item from a enum. Each of the enum items have a integer weight to it. The higher that weight is, the higher chance that item has of being picked. Here's what the enum looks like public enum Enchantment { A(20), //selected most often B(10), ...

For example, I have the strings "Bat", "Spider", "Alien" as my data, and I feed the string "Batman" into a function. I'm looking for a module that would compare the similarity between the input string to each of the strings in the data and would result in "Bat", because that string most closely r...

I'm using the book Heads First Java and I just don't understand it at some parts and the book doesn't explain it well enough. Could someone please tell me what each line does? public class whileloop { public static void main(String[] args) { String[] wordListOne = {"Yello","blue", "gold"}; ...

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I disagree with all three of the opinions. If Client can never be null, then don't even make it possible for it to be null! Set the value of Client in the constructor Throw a NullReferenceException or an IllegalArgumentException in the setter. So your code would be something like: public cla...

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