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Sahar Nasiri
7,454 PointsTotal
Why did Kenneth change this:
total = total * x
What is different between that and:
total = x * total
2 Answers
William Cooper
3,942 PointsSahar, Kenneth's statement "We gotta get tricky here" refers to the if-else statement he added to fix the multiply by zero which made the statement always equal zero. I believe he swapped x and total for clarity; the if statement is correcting for an issue with the total variable. The order of x and total seemed to make no difference with the operation of the if statement.
Stéphane Diez
19,350 Pointsnothing, it's the same. I prefer to do it like this total = total * x
Sahar Nasiri
7,454 PointsYeah I thought so, too. Kenneth changed the code in the video and he said "We gotta get tricky her"!