• @linearchaos@lemmy.world
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    1310 hours ago

    I could never remember the formula to calculate compound interest.

    But I had no trouble writing a for loop.

    • @BluesF@lemmy.world
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      24 hours ago

      What always annoyed me was having to draw charts by hand. Just let me put the data in a computer for god’s sake, the rest of the working is there… I did actually write a python function for one of my assignments which was fine, but they told me not to do it for the exam.

      • @linearchaos@lemmy.world
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        140 minutes ago

        I would just rebuild something in my head like this every time.

        While i < n; k=k+(k*r); i++;

        You’d think I could remember k(1+r)^n but when you posted, it looked as alien as it felt decades ago.