Functions (CS): Level 1 Challenges

     

Can you identify the function f(x,y) which takes two positive integers as its argument?

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def f(x,y):
    minimum = min(x,y)
    maximum = max(x,y)
    if minimum == 0:
        return maximum
    elif minimum == 1:
        return 1
    else:
        return f(minimum,maximum-minimum)

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Eli Ross by Eli Ross

What would the following python code print out? 

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current_year = 2015   
andy_birth = 1984   
andy_minus_adaline = 4   
adaline = andy - andy_minus_adaline   
andy = current_year - andy_birth   
print adaline

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Calvin Lin by Calvin Lin

The Ackermann function is a computable function which grows very, very quickly as its inputs grow. For example, while A(1,2), A(1,2), A(2,2),A (2,2), and A(3,2)A(3,2) are equal to 4,7,4,7, and 29,29, respectively, A(4,2)≈2×1019728 A(4,2) \approx 2 \times 10^{19728} .

The Ackermann function can be defined as follows: A(m,n)={n+1if m=0A(m−1,1)if m>0 and n=0A(m−1,A(m,n−1))if m>0 and n>0. A(m,n) = \begin{cases} n+1 & \mbox{if } m = 0 \\ A(m-1, 1) & \mbox{if } m > 0 \mbox{ and } n = 0 \\ A(m-1, A(m, n-1)) & \mbox{if } m > 0 \mbox{ and } n > 0. \end{cases}

What is the value of A(3,6)? A(3,6)?

Chung Gene Keun by Chung Gene Keun
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