Formula for calculateCheeseCubeCoverage in pizza-pi is misleading #616
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The formula given is
It should be:
The formula given produces wildly incorrect results. However, if it's changed now it will invalidate all of the existing community solutions. Instead, I suggest a note be added to the instructions explaining that the formula needs to be used as-is rather than being corrected by the programmer.
I think it would also be helpful for beginners if the formula used
**
rather than^
, since^
is a valid operator in PHP but produces very unexpected results that are very hard to figure out if you don't already know PHP. Alternatively, the formula could use a superscript-3 Unicode character:The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: