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<p>The final exam will be administered in the classroom via CANVAS
and ANVIL. You will be creating a repo for the final where you
will be placing your code pieces and you will be answering
questions in CANVAS. You will also, obviosly, have access to
cobra.</p>
<p>Basically the final is going to ask you to make some changes to
the code that you submitted for the COLLATZ project to answer a
different question than the one posed in the project. A few of
you made the obvious mistake that I told you to avoid - you tried
to allocate an array to hold a billion large integers. Good luck
with that. In most cases those programs crashed immediately.</p>
<p>By far the most common mistake happened in Fortran and C++. Many
of you did not change the integer size and went with the default
(which has a max of 2147483647) for all of your integer
variables. This died or hung (ran forever). The other common
mistake was changing only the size for the colatz value of the
collatz funtion -- and not any of the intermediate variables.</p>
<p>I tried to indicate in my notes where these failures occurred.
Running your code with an interval 1..1000000 should exposed
issues.<br>
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<p>You will want to correct all of these mistake before the final on
Monday. If you have other questions about the collatz grading
please reach out via e-mail.</p>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
<b>Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.</b><br>
<i>Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science</i><br>
<i>Director of the Computational Science Program</i><br>
<i>Mercer University, Macon, GA, 31207 (478) 301-5627 </i></div>
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