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Author stutzbach
Recipients belopolsky, draghuram, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, stutzbach
Date 2010-05-12.21:26:51
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On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Alexander Belopolsky
<report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> I wonder if one could write an elegant recursive version that would
> multiply first by last in partial_product.

That could be done with a three-parameter partial_product, where the
third parameter designates how many numbers to multiply.  Something
like this:

part_product(9, 17, 5) -> 9*11*13*15*17
  part_product(9, 17, 2) -> 9*17
  part_product(11, 15, 3) -> 11*13*15
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