Quoting Post Archived Topic: It will not be bumped to the top of the forum. Topic Problem with code Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] Quote: from [m]allsmiles[/m] at 5:32 am on Nov. 14, 2008[quote]<9, not <10.[/quote] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post tiara Posted at 5:19 am on Nov. 14, 2008 Q3: Write a program using a while loop that will add both all the odd and all the even numbers from 1 to 10 inclusive i.e. 1+3+5+7+9 and 2 + 4 +6 +... . The results are then printed out. num=input ("enter value") while num<10:          num=num+2          print num, print "goodbye" The results are there and so is the problem: enter value:1 3 5 7 9 11 goodbye It goes up to 11....how do I change it?? And should it be a variable or not??

Replies matto Posted at 5:54 am on Nov. 14, 2008 if you do your calculation or output or whatever before incrementing, the problem will go away Wii Tard Posted at 5:38 am on Nov. 14, 2008 this reminds me of VB....i hate it Tubbz Posted at 5:36 am on Nov. 14, 2008 for less than 10, it gives n=9 and n+2 (11) allsmiles Posted at 5:32 am on Nov. 14, 2008 <9, not <10. glovd001 Posted at 5:22 am on Nov. 14, 2008 Post from this position was omitted due to content violations bigdutchman Posted at 5:20 am on Nov. 14, 2008 change it to while num is less than 8, not 10. now it's still adding 2 and printing if it's 9, printing 11. All 6 previous replies displayed.