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Title: Minor error in section 3.2
Type: Stage:
Components: Documentation Versions:
process
Status: closed Resolution: not a bug
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Assigned To: Nosy List: isandler, jyby
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Created on 2005-03-11 19:29 by jyby, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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msg24563 - (view) Author: Jeremy Barbay (jyby) Date: 2005-03-11 19:29 
In the section "3.2 First Steps Towards Programming " of 
the Python tutorial (http://docs.python.org/tut/node5.html), 
the output of both implementations of the Fibonacci 
sequence computation is incorrect. 
 
As written, only one 1 should be output.  
You should either remove one 1 from the input,  
or replace the lines "print b" and "print b,"  
by "print a" and "print a,". 
 
This is minor but might confuse unnecessarily  beginners.
msg24564 - (view) Author: Jeremy Barbay (jyby) Date: 2005-03-11 19:40 
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All my apologies: I didn't check my code correctly: 
as the algorithm is initializing a with  0  instead of 1, the output is 
correct.
msg24565 - (view) Author: Ilya Sandler (isandler) Date: 2005-04-06 02:52 
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It indeed seems that the output in tutorial is correct

could you close or delete the bug then?

Thanks
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2022-04-11 14:56:10adminsetgithub: 41683
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