Math challenge thing
J. Landman Gay
jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sun Jul 30 14:03:14 EDT 2006
I had to write a loop the other day that cycled around a list of 4
numbers. Usually when I need to do that, I like to use the following,
where x is the current number that I want to increase:
put (x mod 4)+1 into x
This goes around and around, giving a value of x between 1 and 4. But
this time I needed to include zero. I need a series "0,1,2,3". No matter
how I tinkered, I couldn't get a zero out of it.
I wrote it the long way: if x = 3 then put 0 into x
But I got curious. Is there a way to do it the cool way? I'm a math
idiot so maybe it's easy.
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