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Anyone know what the value of "q" is? We took it into a pawn shop, but the woman just looked at us funny.

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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by devious spaghetti [Man smirking near spaghetti]

00:07

companies confusing coders since the beginning of time... Consider the

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following code segment......what is the value of Q after the code has run to

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completion and here are the potential answers.... okay, here we go well this

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requires us to track the value of Q as we traverse the loop and here's our [formula for value of q circled]

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handy counter let's start tracing this mess of spaghetti code and pass the

00:34

butter alright so if we look at the first if loop notice that it's testing

00:37

whether I is odd so for every odd value between 0 and 30 Q will increment go up

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there are 15 odd values between 0 and 30 and since Q is already one well we know [odd values circled]

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in the end that it must be at least 16 let's take a look at the second

00:53

if loop, it tests whether q is equal to some number / q well in this case some

00:58

number is 0 is 0 / 1 equal to 1 well no, it's equal to 0 though in the second

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iteration for the for loop the second if loops doesn't execute it just kind of

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sits there looking dumb.....all right well in fact we can [Man sitting looking at the ocean]

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see that the only time the second if loop executes is when I equals 2 so in

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this case Q also equals 2 and 2 times 2 over 2 definitely equals 2 so wow that's

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a lot of two's from there however Q will always be greater than two times I thus

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the if loop will never execute again this means that we have Q at a total of [hand crosses line through if loop]

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17 so the answer is C well done that's using your noodle [Boy sat at a table with plate of noodles]

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