From: Aldric Giacomoni <aldric@...>
Date: 2009-11-26T02:11:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby internals & other questions

Ralph Shnelvar wrote:
>>>
>>> (2) What's the best Ruby way to do a sum from 1 to 1_000_000
> 
> MLK> Gauss's method:
> MLK> def triangular(n)
> MLK>   (n + 1) * n / 2
> MLK> end
> 
> Ugh ... you _know_ that is not what I meant!

Ralph, you do have to be careful. I got yelled at for answering the 
questions you _meant_ to ask because they weren't the answers to the 
questions you _did_ ask ;)
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