🔒 I need help for my AP exam

[acoustic needle]

I just wanted to know if this calculator technically has an algorithm

import sys

#Start of defined varibles

options = {1, 2, 3, 4}

def addition (x, y):
    print ("Your answer is", x+y,"!")

def substraction (x, y):
    print ("Your answer is", x-y,"!")

def multiplication (x, y):
    print ("Your answer is", x*y,"!")

def division (x, y):
    if y == 0:
        print ("You cannot divide by 0. Please try again")
        exit()
    else:
        print ("Your answer is", x/y,"!")

#End of defined variables

print ("Hello, welocome to your personal calculator")

operation = (int(input("What operation would you like to do today? \n \n 1. Addition \n 2. Substraction \n 3. Multiplication \n 4. Division \n")))

if operation in options:
    x = int(input("What is the first number you would like to use\n"))

    y = int(input("What is the second number you would like to use\n"))

    if operation == 1:
        addition(x, y)
    if operation == 2:
        substraction(x, y)
    if operation == 3:
        multiplication(x, y)
    if operation == 4:
        division(x, y)
    
else:
    print ("Your option is not available please try again")
    exit()```

[obsidian geode]

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[eager fern]

technically yes

[acoustic needle]

Alr bet thank you

would you happen to know what type of algorithm it has?

[eager fern]

There's a type?

[acoustic needle]

there isn't types of algorithms?

[eager fern]

oh those kinds

What do you think?

[acoustic needle]

"An algorithm that includes sequencing, selection, and iteration that is in the body of the selected procedure"

[acoustic needle]

I'm gonna be honest

I have no clue

[eager fern]

what are the types of algos you know of?

[acoustic needle]

not many

[acoustic needle]

does it fit under this category? That's pretty much all I need to know

[eager fern]

Odd. How are you taught about the types of algos? Have you a text book or something for reference?

[eager fern]

But this is just the "definition" of what an algo is

[acoustic needle]

I'm going to be 100% honest with you, it's not my AP exam, it's my friends and he didn't pay attention, I took a boot camp and have been somewhat keeping up on my python, I just write I don't really know key concepts like that

[acoustic needle]

so yes?

cuz if it satisfies that I may or may not have just BSd my way through an AP exam that's not even mine

[eager fern]

lol

you dug yourself a hole here haha

[acoustic needle]

Why do you say that 👁️👁️

[eager fern]

Well, if I were you, I'd just google my way through

[acoustic needle]

It's what I've been doing

that's how I got this far ngl

[eager fern]

Types of algos are found online but not sure if that's covered in your friend's AP

Read this: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/what-is-an-algorithm-definition-types-complexity-examples/

[acoustic needle]

this is the last thing, if I can get a clear answer as of the fact that it satisfies that parameter I'm done

[acoustic needle]

on it

Step 1: Start
Step 2: Get the knowledge of input. Here we need 3 variables; a and b will be the user input and c will hold the result.  
Step 3: Declare a, b, c variables.
Step 4: Take input for a and b variable from the user.
Step 5: Know the problem and find the solution using operators, data structures and logic

We need to multiply a and b variables so we use * operator and assign the result to c. 
That is c <- a * b

Step 6: Check how to give output, Here we need to print the output. So write print c
Step 7: End```

so it's basically that

but I didn't assign the result to a variable

so is it still an algo?

wait

I think I can modify it slightly to assign it

[eager fern]

Its still an algo

[abstract wagon]

an """""algorithm""""" is just a procedure. though people typically only talk about algorithms that solve some describable problem.

[acoustic needle]

that's cool thx but I wanna know if the "algo" I used satisfies this

alr so I just found out it doesn't satisfy iteration but I can fix that real quick by looping it and just adding an exit feature at the start

[obsidian geode]

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