Re: integers and arrays inJava - how?


"Oliver Wong" <owong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Rhino" <no.offline.contact.please@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Can this be done, and eXactly how?

If this is a homework assignment, I'm reasonably sure that it _can_ be
done; most instructors would not waste your time and theirs asking you to
do something that can't be done.

I've had one professor who asked us to do something impossible for
homework. The next day, he told us it was impossible. The point of it was
for us to discover for ourselves that it was impossible and thus learn
something.

I deliberately hedged in my paragraph by saying "most instructors" to cover
situations like the one you describe :-)

Asking you to do the impossible is a valid thing to do as a learning point
and I've heard of it happening before. It still doesn't seem likely that it
was involved in the question that the original poster asked.


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Rhino


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