[QUOTE="foxhound_fox"]The basis of atheism is a lack of belief entirely. If one is an agnostic atheist, they don't actually "believe" anything... and most atheists are agnostic.

Some atheists criticize fundamentalist Christians for trying to mix their beliefs with science and claiming that their beliefs are "true" in the sense of scientific proof and not just true based on faith.NTWrightfan

and from whence cometh the responsibility to not mix religious dogma with scientific processes?

NTWrightfan

[QUOTE="HardQuor"]I've never gotten my code to get that output.. I'm guessing that's probably right, but i don't want to put it in until i can get my code to back it up.

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aha! i found out what the problem is, by doing what you did, i just had it output term3 at the end of each do..while loop. aaand, it turns out that it's going one step over the 4 million mark for some reason.. gotta figure that out, now.

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nope, I was wrong again, i was actually reading a list of all thefibonacci sequence numbers, not the ones that were being totalled. So now i'm just totally confused, because when i checked the numbers being added together, it was all the rightones, and like you, i added them together manually to get the same sum that you got. But for some reason, my code is coming up with an extra 53410852 somewhere.

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OK! I FINALLY figured it out. Turns out that if i don't initialize a long integer, it defines itself as 53410852. So i went ahead and initialized it with a value of 0 and got our 4 million-ish number :lol: I knew from reading some books on C++ that it would be finicky, but JEEZ.

OrkHammer007

Edit #3: One of the first rules we learned in programming (whether it was C++ or Java or Visual Basic) was to always initialize a variable. There are some instances where a "null" value is needed, but even then, we were told to intialize it as a "null."

Did the initialization solve your problem?

[QUOTE="HardQuor"]So, no one has any clue, 'eh?OrkHammer007

I just rewrote it to spit out the Fibonacci numbers so I could double check (using Wikipedia as a reference to make sure I got the right calculations), reran the sum, added the numbers on a calculator to triple check my results, and got...

4613732 ...which came straight from the last code snippet you posted.

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aha! i found out what the problem is, by doing what you did, i just had it output term3 at the end of each do..while loop. aaand, it turns out that it's going one step over the 4 million mark for some reason.. gotta figure that out, now.

---re-edit---
nope, I was wrong again, i was actually reading a list of all thefibonacci sequence numbers, not the ones that were being totalled. So now i'm just totally confused, because when i checked the numbers being added together, it was all the rightones, and like you, i added them together manually to get the same sum that you got. But for some reason, my code is coming up with an extra 53410852 somewhere.

---re-re-edit---
OK! I FINALLY figured it out. Turns out that if i don't initialize a long integer, it defines itself as 53410852. So i went ahead and initialized it with a value of 0 and got our 4 million-ish number :lol: I knew from reading some books on C++ that it would be finicky, but JEEZ.

Well. I shortened the code to evaluate only term3:

do
{
    term3 = term1 + term2;
    if( term3 % 2 == 0 )
    {
        sum = term3 + sum;
     };
     term1 = term2;
     term2 = term3;
}while( term3 (less than or equal to) 4000000 );

and i get 58024584. But that's still wrong. I still don't know what the hell i'm doing wrong. this is pissing me off.
oh, also, term1 and term2 have been reduced to 0 and 1, respectively.

Bloody hell... the problem just smacked me right in the face:

Why are you checking term1 and term2, when the Fibonacci term is term3? That's the only one you need to check. :P

Sorry I didn't catch that earlier.

OrkHammer007

I just copy/pasted what you wrote, with the following initial values:

long int term1 = 0; long int term2 = 1; long int term 3 = 0; long int sum = 0;

It compiled and ran fine. What's the answer supposed to be (I get  5702886)?

Oh... and I added a ; after the "while" part of the loop.

OrkHammer007

I just copy/pasted what you wrote, with the following initial values:

long int term1 = 0; long int term2 = 1; long int term 3 = 0; long int sum = 0;

It compiled and ran fine. What's the answer supposed to be (I get  5702886)?

Oh... and I added a ; after the "while" part of the loop.

OrkHammer007