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[muted grail]

size=int(input("Enter size:"))
symbol=input("Enter symbol:")
for i in range(1,size+1):
    print(symbol*i)

[steep oriole]

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[muted grail]

my current code gives me a staircase

not a pyramid

I've also attatched the task requirement that needs to be fullfilled

[indigo hound]

you probably need to center your stars

[muted grail]

yea but how

[indigo hound]

have you used f-strings yet?

[muted grail]

nope we havent been taught that yet

[indigo hound]

are you allowed to use it?

[muted grail]

i dont think so

but im open to learning it

[indigo hound]

okay then you need to manually calculate the number of spaces to insert

[muted grail]

hm

[indigo hound]

it should be very simple

[muted grail]

so spaces should be (size/2)-1

?

[indigo hound]

on the first row yes

where 1 is the number of stars on each row

[muted grail]

then -2 and so on?

or is that wrong

[indigo hound]

actually it wouldn't be the number of #'s on each row, it'd be the number of # from the center to the left

so it'd just increase by 1 each time

1, 2, 3, ...

[muted grail]

uh

[indigo hound]

in other words, i

maybe i+1 but you get the idea yeah?

there's also str.center but I assume you're not allowed to use that either

[muted grail]

# Task 10: Output a pyramid of size defined by input of the symbol defined through input
size=int(input("Enter size:"))
symbol=input("Enter symbol:")
for i in range(1,size+1):
    print(""*i,2*symbol*i)

progress

[indigo hound]

that's an empty string not a space

but closer lol

[muted grail]

oh

how do i center them

this is what it does with the space

[indigo hound]

remember the calculation for your spaces was size//2 - i

not just i

[muted grail]

this might sound stupid

but

/ gives us a float value and // gives us an ineteger

right

[indigo hound]

uhh in this case yes

// is floor division, if you use it on two integers it will return an integer

otherwise it will return a float that has been floored (rounded towards -infinity)

[muted grail]

whats wrong with my print statement

    print(" "*(size//2)-1,2*symbol*i)

[indigo hound]

2 things, your space calculation doesn't change as you loop (you are not using i in it), and your second part isn't using string multiplication to produce the #'s

[muted grail]

right so i instead of 1

and

[indigo hound]

oh

symbol is #

[muted grail]

yea user gives us the symbol as input

it can be any symbol

[indigo hound]

that's gonna do (2*'#')*i == '##'*i

so if that's what you want it works

[muted grail]

size=int(input("Enter size:"))
symbol=input("Enter symbol:")
for i in range(1,size+1):
    print(" "*(size//2)-i,2*symbol*i)

[indigo hound]

oh that's because of operator precedence

* happens before - so you have to do the math in one big parenthesis

(size//2-i)

// has higher precedence than - so you don't need to wrap parens around the division

[muted grail]

bodmas

size=int(input("Enter size:"))
symbol=input("Enter symbol:")
for i in range(1,size+1):
    print(" "*(size//2-i),2*symbol*i)

im getting closer.

[indigo hound]

oh size here is the height of your triangle isn't it?

[muted grail]

yep

pyramid

not triangle

our goal is to make a pyramid

well triangle

same thing

LMAO

[indigo hound]

with that formula is should be the width of the last row

[muted grail]

its 2d woopsie

[indigo hound]

same same lol

try dropping the //2

[muted grail]

ok

this is our goal though

the top row still has 2 symbols

[indigo hound]

you just gotta fix your symbol calculation

[muted grail]

mhm

[indigo hound]

right now it's 2*i which gives you 2, 4, 6, ...

so how could you change 2*i to give you 1, 3, 5, ...

[muted grail]

can i just -1

from the symbol calculation

[indigo hound]

mhm

[muted grail]

but

it gives me an error

[indigo hound]

parens again

[muted grail]

i think its the same issue

[indigo hound]

operator precedence

[muted grail]

yeah

so i put the paranthesis around

    print(" "*(size-i),(2*symbol*i)-1)

like this?

uhh

[indigo hound]

no

all your math involving numbers should be in the parens

then multiply that with symbol

[muted grail]

so 2*i-1

and then multiply that w symbol

[indigo hound]

yh

[muted grail]

YAY

I DID IT

WELL WE DID IT

THANKS MAN

[indigo hound]

grats lmao

np

[muted grail]

ill see you around

have a good one :)

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