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[–] stoly 13 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I wonder if day length is given separately in a table prior to the question? I’m not sure what they wanted except maybe seconds?

[–] [email protected] 106 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's the length of the string. The number of characters is 6. It's a play on words and a question.

[–] stoly 15 points 9 months ago

Oh wow. Thanks

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I’m assuming they wanted the literal length of the string

[–] stoly 11 points 9 months ago

That seems to be the consensus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Naw, they wanted the metaphorical length. Computers are great at metaphors.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Conversations about language aside, the error is that "Monday" is a string with a length of 6.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

What is the type of the variable day though? As it is we have to make multiple assumptions, based on popular programming languages, about the internals of the string type and the print function to assume that it prints "6".

[–] ripcord 9 points 9 months ago

There is a fairly good chance that there has been more info presented in the class than we have been given here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That's the variable name, not the type