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Chapter 4.4, Problem 13CP
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Accumulator:
Accumulator is the variable which is used to accumulate the total of the numbers in the running total.
- • The running total is that which is used to calculate the sum of numbers that is accumulated in a separate variable for each iteration of a loop.
- • The variable that is used to keep the total is referred as accumulator.
Diagrammatic representation to set the accumulator:
- • In the above diagram, the accumulator variable is initialized to 0 at the first step.
- • This step is the most essential one, because each time the loop iterates it adds the value to the accumulator.
- • If the accumulator variable is set other than 0, then the correct total cannot be calculated while finishing the loop...
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Starting Out with Python (4th Edition)
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