Hmm .. School Serves a Purpose ...
Odd how random events can inpire creative introspection.
For my C++ Programming class, we receive assingments to write programs on a weekly basis. Program 5, Task 6 for this week was:
Write a for loop to sum the following series of inegers: 1, 2, 3, ... 100,000
and display the results.
Now, this is a very simple task, and took approximately 2.65 minutes to code. (the majority of which was copy/pasted from other assignments, the most time-consuming step OF this process)
For those that are curious, the sum turns out to be a number a bit more than 705 million. 705,082,704, to be exact.
This inspired great introspection.
The point: .. take all the little whatevers that you have a lot of in your life (love, money, time, etc.), of which there are most likely a great many (much less than 100,000)
Then add in all the big things within the same vein.
That adds up to a hellova lotta stuff. Funny how it takes an inane programming assignment to bring to light one of the most elementary truths that most of us are already intrinsicly aware.
For my C++ Programming class, we receive assingments to write programs on a weekly basis. Program 5, Task 6 for this week was:
Write a for loop to sum the following series of inegers: 1, 2, 3, ... 100,000
and display the results.
Now, this is a very simple task, and took approximately 2.65 minutes to code. (the majority of which was copy/pasted from other assignments, the most time-consuming step OF this process)
For those that are curious, the sum turns out to be a number a bit more than 705 million. 705,082,704, to be exact.
This inspired great introspection.
The point: .. take all the little whatevers that you have a lot of in your life (love, money, time, etc.), of which there are most likely a great many (much less than 100,000)
Then add in all the big things within the same vein.
That adds up to a hellova lotta stuff. Funny how it takes an inane programming assignment to bring to light one of the most elementary truths that most of us are already intrinsicly aware.