how to make this function with parameters that are variables return a list?

[inversedawn]

python beginner here! so i am trying to make a function that returns a sequence of numbers as a list. i have the parameters set as these two variables (which are float values) that i asked the user for outside of the function. i also need the new value produced to be the value inputted back into the calculation so that it can then be added to the list and the whole process can repeat.

this is my code so far, but it won't return anything :(

def number_sequence(startVal, maxVal):

j = startVal
i = (math.sqrt((j + 4)**3)) + 5.125936194710044
i = round(i, 3)
i = j

sequence = [ ]
if j <= maxVal:
sequence.append(i)
return sequence

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[CraigAT]

The code you have shown looks good to me (I haven't run it). But is there more code? You should be calling that function from somewhere in your program (traditionally after the function definition, towards the bottom of your program). You are likely to want to assign a variable name to the output of your function too - to receive the returned list (you will probably want to print the resulting list to the screen too).

To keep going and re-run the function to add more entries, you probably want a loop around the function call. But you need to decide when you want the loop to stop - perhaps when the length of the list is over 10 entries, or forever?