no iterations

Luc Pattyn

Can you come up with an appropriate name for this method:

public static string[] xyz(int n) {
if (n<1) throw new ArgumentException("n must be greater than zero");
return new string('*', (int)Math.Round((Math.Pow(0.5+Math.Sqrt(1.25), n)-Math.Pow(0.5-Math.Sqrt(1.25), n))/Math.Sqrt(5))).Replace("*", ".*").Substring(1).Split('.');
}

PS: triggered by an actual programming question (which looked like homework). :)

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Chris Meech

I'd call it

public static string[] TheGreatBigMathPowSqrtFunctionThatNobodyKnowsWhatItDoes(int n);

Is there not a name for the algorithm that is being implemented? :)

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Luc Pattyn

Sampling the function for a couple of small values should tell you exactly what it does. If you want to apply Google Fu, there is a formula by Binet, which I gave a little twist... :)

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Abhinav S

Luc Pattyn wrote:

Can you come up with an appropriate name for this method:

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious? :)

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.

Luc Pattyn

Sorry, rejected by at least a dozen FxCop rules. :)

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Andrew Rissing

public static string[] RubeGoldberg(int n)
{
...
}

Named after, ofcourse, Rube Goldberg[^].

Andrew Rissing

Btw, I hope the OP does realize that you haven't infact removed the loop, but just hidden it inside a method call. I can just see the teacher looking at this and going...you know...I really just wanted a recursive method.

Luc Pattyn

well, a recursion is also a loop, as it executes the same code over and over again; luckily all he really asked to get rid of was a for loop, so a simple while could have sufficed. PS: yeah, I don't mind freaking out a teacher once in a while. :)

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Luc Pattyn

hmm. Not quite, Binet's formula would give better performance than any loop or recursion once n goes up. And please don't think of doing these things recursively (unless you cache intermediate results), it would take very long as it has exponential behavior. :)

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Andrew Rissing

To me, it just sounded like there was a bit of confusion on his part as to what he was really aiming for. Hence, my observation.

Andrew Rissing

NetQuestions wrote:

I want to initialize a string array with "*".

That part and the subsequent responses regarding that from you and Ennis just confused me over what he actually wants. </spam>

PIEBALDconsult

MyGodItsFullOfStars

Luc Pattyn

BestSoFar :)

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Abhinav S

Luc Pattyn wrote:

Sorry, rejected by at least a dozen FxCop rules.

GAH - you did not tell me you had FXCop running. :)

Andrew Rissing

:laugh: Got my vote.

ricmil42

FibonacciStrings ( )

dawmail333

HereBeDragons(n) ;P Or even better: uβerπ(n) :laugh: EDIT: If you can't read that, it says uBer(pi)

Abhinav S

ricmil42 wrote:

FibonacciStrings ( )

That sounds like an actual answer - no fun. ;P

Hired Mind

How about:

    private static readonly double WhatDoesThisMean = 0.5 + Math.Sqrt(5);
    private static readonly double WhatDoesThisMean2 = 0.5 - Math.Sqrt(1.25);

    public static string\[\] **DesparatelyNeedsRefactoring**(int n)
    {
        if (n < 1) 
            throw new ArgumentException("n must be greater than zero");

        double d = Math.Pow(WhatDoesThisMean, n) - Math.Pow(WhatDoesThisMean2, n);

        var stringLength = (int) Math.Round(d / WhatDoesThisMean);
        return new string('\*', stringLength).Replace("\*", ".\*").Substring(1).Split('.');
    }

Note that I would refactor the variable 'stringLength' out as well - I put that in there to try and figure out what was going on, before I gave up and Googled.

Before .NET 4.0, object Universe = NULL;

Luc Pattyn

Hired Mind wrote:

I gave up and Googled

and? :)

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