Talk:Chowla numbers: Difference between revisions

 

: I'm sorry if you think that added commas to make the output numbers easier to read as an epic opera.   The primary goal was quite simply put, to use a user-written '''chowla''' function to find/display chowla numbers, to use the same function to find/count prime numbers and perfect numbers   (the last two requirements have two reasons:   verify that the '''chowla''' function executes correctly, and the other is that it should be written/coded in a robust manner suitable for Rosetta Code).   This was the goal, but stating the goal wasn't part of the lexicon of the task's requirements.   Rosetta Code tasks can have more than one goal, and in fact, many Rosetta Code tasks do, although goals and requirements overlap.   I may be a bit demanding, but I don't see any blurriness in the goal(s), especially since no goal was mentioned.   I prefer to simply list the task's requirements after the definitions in the task's preamble.   As for what solutions (programs) should look like, I don't subscribe to the belief that solutions should or shouldn't look like;   there are just too many styles and syntax that programmers use and/or prefer.   Not to mention what is idiomatic or not idiomatic for a particular computer programming language.   Others can argue about the merits of comments within the code.   I do believe in specific requirements.   Without them, some programmers have written solutions that don't show any output (although it was obvious that the task's author intended output to be shown, otherwise, how are we to compare the validity of the computer programs?), or the output is in a different format than all the others, or the output doesn't match the others because it uses different input(s), and even some programmers don't even use the same nomenclature.   There are reasons that requirements are specific (even numerous), and that is to ensure we are all seeing the same output(s) for the task's requirements.     -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 10:50, 11 March 2019 (UTC)