Problem 017

[jaap]

phillip1882,
I saw the code you posted before it was removed. Your problem lies in how you handle the number 100.

[Doro_91]

I'm going crazy. I've been looking over my code (java) about 2 hours and to me it's correct. but it gives not the correct solution. so i ask: may anyone of you look over my code? cause i do not understand what's wrong..

[Jochen_P]

Yeah, please send it.. I am curious If I am able to spot the looney in an unfamiliar language.. (no guarantuee)

[N1ghtly]

Hello everybody,

I've been debugging my code 2+ hours, still without a correct answer.
I gave up and cheated, and I seem to bet getting 10 too low.
I have absolutely no idea!
Can I please send my code to someone, maybe you can spot the error :p

[Barsy]

Hello,

I cannot find the right answer and I think the problem come from the language.

Can someone cofirm that the sum of letters from 1 to 500 is : 9774 ?

Is there exceptions in the language ? The writting for following numbers is correct ?
100 : one hundred (10)
200 : two hundred (10)
215 : two hundred and fifteen (20)
407 : four hundred and seven (19)
694 : six hundred and ninety four (23)

Thank you for your help

PS : It's OK, I solved the problem. It's seem I made a mistake counting letters in the word "fourteen"...

[pytom]

this one is ok~

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[Lord_Farin]

this one is ok~

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[Snip]

In fact, it is not. The bright red box above this forum should tell you (and should've in advance) that posting such results is **NOT** allowed. Please, remove your code.

[pytom]

this one is ok~

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[Snip]

In fact, it is not. The bright red box above this forum should tell you (and should've in advance) that posting such results is **NOT** allowed. Please, remove your code.

sorry, terrible sorry~ i make a mistake~

[Lord_Farin]

sorry, terrible sorry~ i make a mistake~

Mistakes are good. They keep us human Thanks for your apologies.

[m34tcode]

lol im epic failing. been trying to figure out for days y its not working.

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one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine
ten
eleven
twelve
thirteen
fourteen
fifteen
sixteen
seventeen
eighteen
nineteen
twenty
..
thirty
fourty
fifty
sixty
seventy
eighty
ninety
n-hundred
onethousand

EDIT: lol browsers spell-correct feature showed me that fourty is spelled as 'forty' lol. got it =]

[browndar]

I think eighteen and eighty may be other culprits.

[kholdstare13]

I would like to point out that the proper U.S. and Canadian number system reserves the word "and" only for FRACTIONAL numbers, not those represented with a decimal point, and digits following a decimal point are pronounced separately unless treated as a fraction. For example,

1 1/2: One and one half
1.5: One point five
102.123 One hundred two point one two three
3.14 Three point one four (In order to pronounce "fourteen" it must be stated as "three and fourteen hundredths")

It is lso interesting to note that "hundredth(s)" is the only fraction not to require the word "one", as in "one hundred fiftieths" (X/150). Is this also true in British?

How would British people pronounce the following?
987,123 456/705: Nine hundred AND eighty seven thousand one hundred AND twenty three AND four hundred AND fifty six seven hundred AND fifths?
(American: Nine hundred eighty seven thousand one hundred twenty three AND for hundred fifty six seven hundred fifths)
Do you use some word other than "and" to separate integers from fractions?

Luckily this problem is only up to 1000 or we might have to deal with the dilemma of British numbers over 999,999,999.

[garethrees]

In the UK, we almost never talk about large improper fractions, so it does not matter very much that a phrase like "one hundred and three quarters" is ambiguous between 103/4 and 403/4 (which indeed it is). For real world numbers, we tend to use decimal, so we'd say "twenty-five point seven five" or "one hundred point seven five". For the few cases where we do use improper fractions (for example, ages of young children, clothing sizes, "platform nine and three quarters"), the numbers tend to be small enough that there is in practice no ambiguity. Maybe things are different elsewhere in the world.

There is no dilemma about names for large numbers in the UK. 10**9 is a "billion" and has been so for at least forty years. The very last holdouts for the "long scale" (10**12) billion gave up in the mid-1970s.

[kapila_619]

Hi,
can anyone see my code in python

I have gone over it many times but cannot find the mistake

edit : done !!

[Slaunger]

Feel free to send me your code, and I will try to help.

[Ulkor]

Thanks to this thread I am now aware of the fact that it's forty, not fourty.

Should I be happy I or should I feel ashamed?

[sh4ring4n]

I have most of it down, but I can't seem to pinpoint the answer, and how my code is wrong.

[ComSciGuy]

After reading all of the posts and double checking my spelling, I am still getting the wrong answer. Below is a sample of the output. My code outputs 19 for 1-5 and does 115 and 342 correctly.

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1: one (3)
2: two (3)
3: three (5)
4: four (4)
5: five (4)
6: six (3)
7: seven (5)
8: eight (5)
9: nine (4)
10: ten (3)
11: eleven (6)
12: twelve (6)
13: thirteen (8)
14: fourteen (8)
15: fifteen (7)
16: sixteen (7)
17: seventeen (9)
18: eighteen (8)
19: nineteen (8)
20: twenty (6) ...
30: thirty (6) ...
40: forty (5) ...
50: fifty (5) ...
60: sixty (5)
70: seventy (7) ...
80: eighty (6) ...
90: ninety (6)...
100: onehundred (10)
101: onehundredandone (16) ...
115: onehundredandfifteen (20) ...
342: threehundredandfortytwo (23) ...
998: ninehundredandninetyeight (25)
999: ninehundredandninetynine (24)
1000: onethousand  (12)

Am I missing something simple here. Thanks.

Edit: Thanks to mdean for providing a fresh set of eyes. Note: The error was an extra space after the "thousand"

[loucmu]

Damn you "eightteen"!!!!! I'm a mathematician damnit, not a speller.

[hk]

For a mathematician spelling should be piece of cake.