Last answered:

28 Dec 2023

Posted on:

25 Dec 2023

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Resolved: Understanding rolling sum & variable of increment

For below function, I can't understand why we created a variable Total to equal zero & why we further increment it by 1. Our aim is to count existing numbers less than 20 so what is the necessity of growing the total by 1.


def  count(numbers):

       total=0

       for x in numbers:

             if x<20:

                total+=1

      return total

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Posted on:

28 Dec 2023

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Hi Asmaa!
Thanks for reaching out.


The variable total is initialized to 0 and is used to keep track of the count of numbers less than 20. Each time a number in the list numbers is found to be less than 20, the total variable is incremented by 1 to reflect this count.


Hope this helps.
Best,
Tsvetelin

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