Ancient Greek religion quest for the Golden Fleece and Theseus and the Minotaur. Many species existed in Greek mythology. Chief among these were the gods and humans, though the Titans (who predated the Olympian gods) also frequently appeared in Greek myths. Lesser species included the half-man-half-horse centaurs, the nature based nymphs (tree nymphs were dryads, sea nymphs were Nereids) and the half man, half goat satyrs. Some creatures in Greek mythology were monstrous, such as the one-eyed giant Cyclopes, the sea beast Scylla, whirlpool Charybdis, Gorgons, and the half-man, half-bull Minotaur. There was not a set Greek cosmogony, or creation myth. Different religious
Loop-and-a-half Loop-and-a-half Loop-and-a-half is a computer science term for a control flow construct where a loop is exited in the middle, instead of at the beginning or at the end. This kind of logic is needed for example when processing an unknown number of data items until a certain condition becomes true indicating that there are no more items to process. Usually the exit condition has to do with the data items, for example looking for a particular item called the sentinel which indicates the end of the items. Writing a loop-and-a-half in a simplistic manner leads to code duplication which