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Exercise

Measuring time I

In the lecture slides, you saw how the time.time() function can be loaded and used to assess the time required to perform a basic mathematical operation.

Now, you will use the same strategy to assess two different methods for solving a similar problem: calculate the sum of squares of all the positive integers from 1 to 1 million (1,000,000).

Similar to what you saw in the video, you will compare two methods; one that uses brute force and one more mathematically sophisticated.

In the function formula, we use the standard formula

$$ \frac{N*(N+1)(2N+1)}{6} $$

where N=1,000,000.

In the function brute_force we loop over each number from 1 to 1 million and add it to the result.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Calculate the result of the problem using the formula() function.
  • Print the time required to calculate the result using the formula() function.
  • Calculate the result of the problem using the brute_force() function.
  • Print the time required to calculate the result using the brute_force() function.