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Start your free trialClifford Gagliardo
Courses Plus Student 15,069 PointsCouldn't multiply correctly
I don't see why multiplying the interating variable (nums) by it self won't return the product?
def multiply(*args):
total=0
for num in args:
total=num*num
return total
2 Answers
Steven Parker
231,275 PointsRemember that the task is to return the total product "of all of the supplied arguments". But "num * num
" is the square of just one of the arguments. And if you reassign total with this in a loop, then when the loop finishes total will contain the square of the last argument.
Try again, and remember that you want to multiply the arguments by each other, and retain (instead of replace) the product during the loop.
Clifford Gagliardo
Courses Plus Student 15,069 PointsAh! The light bulb just went off. Thank you!