How to find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000 in Python?

Question

Not sure if I should\'ve posted this on math.stackexchange instead, but it includes more programming so I posted it here.

The question seems really simple, but I\'ve

Answer 1

max = 1000  # notice this here
result = 0
for i in range(0,max):
if i%3 == 0 or i%5 == 0:
    result += i

print result

This works, but use 1000 for max, so it includes 999 too.