I am very new to coding and Java. I have the following assignment: Write a program that reads a couple of positive numbers from the input and computes and prints the average, with 3 decimals precision. The input list closes with the number -1.
So I have a working program, however I have no clue how to integrate the condition 'print the average with 3 decimals precision'. Do you have any idea how to fix this? Many thanks!
See my code below:
import java.util.Scanner;
public class Parta {
public static void main(String[] args){
Scanner numInput = new Scanner(System.in);
double avg = 0.0;
double count = 0.0;
double sum = 0.0;
System.out.println("Enter a series of numbers. Enter -1 to quit.");
while (numInput.hasNextDouble())
{
double negNum = numInput.nextDouble();
if (negNum == -1)
{
System.out.println("You entered " + count + " numbers averaging " + avg + ".");
break;
}
else
{
sum += negNum;
count++;
avg = sum/count;
}
}
}
}
You just have to break out of the loop for your -1 condition.
while(1) {
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
int n = sc.nextInt();
if(n == -1)
break;
}
Change
for(int i=0; i < numbers.length + 1= -1 ; i++)
to
for(int i=0; i < n ; i++)
The
%n
is out of place in the print statement also. I'd remove that.
To implement your -1 condition, check for a == -1 in the for loop:
if (a == -1) {break;}
The input list closes with the number -1.
I assume this means that -1 is the final number you are looking for and when read then all inputs are then completed? You just need a condition to check if the number you are looking at is -1, if it is then stop reading.
Your code does not meet your requirements.
The first requirement is that you have to calculate fractions. But you stick to int as type of your variables. As written by #nbokmans your variables should be of type double or float.
The other problem is that your code takes the first number given as the count of the numbers to follow. But you're told to use any number for calculation until input is -1. You cannot do this with a for loop, you need a while loop for this.
An the easiest way to accomplish your task is to calculate the result on the fly while getting the input:
pseudo code:
declare sum as double initially 0.0;
while(input is not -1)
sum = (sum + input) / 2;
output sum:
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I am very new to java and I need help. Basically, I have a program that asks the user to input a number. When the number is input, it takes a sum of all of the odd numbers before that number and adds them up. What I'm trying (and failing) to do is, make another loop whereby, when the user is prompted to ask for a number to sum up the odd numbers, I want to make it so that it will only continue when an odd number is entered, otherwise it will keep repeatedly asking the user until they enter an odd number. I know that using a while loop will solve this issue, but I'm not sure how to get it to work.
Here's my code:
import java.util.Scanner;
public class OddCalculator {
private static Scanner sc;
public static void main(String[] args)
{
int number, i, oddSum = 0;
sc = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.print(" Please Enter any Number : ");
number = sc.nextInt();
while (number % 2 !=0) //HERE IS WHERE IM HAVING THE ISSUE
{
continue;
}
for(i = 1; i <= number; i++)
{
if(i % 2 != 0)
{
oddSum = oddSum + i;
}
}
System.out.println("\n The Sum of Odd Numbers upto " + number + " = " + oddSum);
}
}
Thanks in advance!
continue; as a statement scans 'upwards and outwards' for the first construct that can be continued. Things that can be continued are currently only for, while and do/while statements, so it finds while (number % 2 != 0) and will continue it.
To continue a while loop means: Jump straight back to the condition number %2 != 0, evaluate it, and then enter the loop again if it is true, or hop to the } if it is false.
So, your code checks if the number is odd. If it is, it will .. continue. So, it will.. check if the number is odd. If it is, it will check if the number is odd. If it is, it will check if the number is odd.... forever.
Presumably your intent is to ask the user again, but then you'd have to wrap the loop around more code: Start with the print, because certainly sc.nextInt() needs to be inside the loop. That does mean you won't have a number value to check, but that's what do/while loops are for: To guarantee you loop at least once (and so that you can use anything calculated in the loop as part of the condition).
You should also use the scanner inside the while loop in case the number is not odd.
while (number % 2 !=0) {
number = sc.nextInt(); // Use here as well to keep asking for a number until is odd
}
Your confusion seems to be coming from misunderstanding that continue means going back to the while loop, and break is what gets you out of the loop. Does this work for you?
System.out.println(" Please Enter any Number : ");
number = sc.nextInt();
// keep asking for a number for as long as it is even (condition is false on odd)
while (number % 2 == 0) {
System.out.println("Please enter another number: ");
number = sc.nextInt();
}
System.out.println(number + " is now odd!");
I hope this output is what you are looking for, the reason why your previous code doesn't work is that number = sc.nextInt(); is the reason why you can prompt the user for an input, so you have to loop it, furthermore, you can give a specific prompt base on what the user has inputted in the if statement, hope this helps!
import java.util.Scanner;
class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// int number, i, oddSum = 0;
int number, i, oddSum = 0;
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.print("Please Enter any Number : ");
do{
number = sc.nextInt();
if(number % 2 == 0){
System.out.print("Please Enter an odd number!: ");
}
}while(number % 2 == 0);
for(i = 1; i <= number; i++)
{
if(i % 2 != 0)
{
oddSum = oddSum + i;
}
}
System.out.println("\nThe Sum of Odd Numbers up to " + number + " = " + oddSum);
}
}
Output:
Please Enter any Number : 2
Please Enter an odd number!: 2
Please Enter an odd number!: 3
The Sum of Odd Numbers up to 3 = 4
The instructions are the following:
Write a method called inputThenPrintSumAndAverage that does not have any parameters.
The method should not return anything (void) and it needs to keep reading int numbers from the keyboard.
When the user enters something that is not an int then it needs to print a message in the format "SUM = XX AVG = YY". XX represents the sum of all entered numbers of type int.
YY represents the calculated average of all numbers of type long.
I've coded the following method but I keep getting the incorrect average. What can I change to get the correct average?
public static void inputThenPrintSumAndAverage(){
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
int sum = 0, counter = 0;
long average = 0L;
while(true) {
boolean number = scanner.hasNextInt();
if(!number)
{
counter++;
break;
}
else {
int digit = scanner.nextInt();
sum += digit;
counter++;
}
}
average = sum / counter;
System.out.println("SUM = " + sum + " AVG = " + average);
}
The following should do:
if(!number)
break;
Your average is wrong because you are incrementing "counter" more than you should.
Of course in the end you are going to have to add one more if statement to make sure you are not attempting to divide by counter if the counter is zero. In that case, an average is undefined.
Also, as others have pointed out in the comments, it is entirely unclear to us what you mean when you say "I keep getting the incorrect average", and we generally frown upon questions worded so vaguely. But if by any chance a "correct average" for you means an average with decimals, then you should use a double instead of a long for your average, and you should cast your counter to double before dividing, so as to force a double division instead of a long division.
Use scanner.hasNextInt() to read util a non-integer value is supplied as input:
public static void inputThenPrintSumAndAverage() {
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
int number, sum = 0, counter = 0;
long average = 0L;
while (scanner.hasNextInt()) {
number = scanner.nextInt();
sum += number;
counter++;
}
if(counter != 0){
average = sum / counter;
}
System.out.println("SUM = " + sum + " AVG = " + average);
}
Note that you should check the value of counter to avoid a division by zero.
If you want the average to be in decimals, change the type of average to double: double average; and cast the division to double: average = (double) sum / counter;.
I'm new to coding. Assignment is to calculate the average of all the positive numbers input and exit when a zero is input. If no positive numbers are input display a message average not possible.
The following is what I have so far. I am stuck on the part about printing out the message "cannot calculate the average" when only a zero or negative numbers are input.
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
int numbers = 0;
int sumOfNumbers = 0;
double averagePositive = 0;
while (true) {
System.out.println("Give a number: ");
int number = Integer.valueOf(scanner.nextLine());
if (number == 0)
break;
if (number > 0)
sumOfNumbers = number + sumOfNumbers;
if (number > 0)
numbers = numbers + 1;
if (number > 0)
averagePositive = (double)sumOfNumbers / (double)numbers;
}
System.out.println(averagePositive);
}
Try it as follows...
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.print("Give a number: ");
int num=input.nextInt();
int tot=0; //total
int count=0; // counting the positive numbers
if(num>0){
while(num!=0){
tot+=num;
count++;
System.out.print("Give a number: ");
num=input.nextInt();
if(num<0){
System.out.print("Not possible");
return;
}
}
double avg =(double)tot/n;
System.out.print("Average: "+avg);
}else{
System.out.println("Cannot calculate the average.");
}
}
I'd probably do it like this to keep it simple. Also in general, try not to cramp code together. Most formal project demand a certain degree of styling and usually spaces between operators and braces, etc... is required. In the long run it makes the code more readable and easier to maintain.
In your code there was no need to repeat the same if test for number > 0 multiple times, they could have all been bundled together. If the program was bigger and more complex I may have named the variable names with more qualification but for a short program like this, brief names were sufficient for clarity.
continue and break are important keywords to control loop behavior and can be used to increase brevity and clarity. continue goes back to the top of the loop immediately and break exits the innermost loop immediately. Dividing a double by an int yields a double so I was able to eliminate a cast. And the += operator makes it a little easier to read the line.
Also in Java and C any if() or else clause that contains one line doesn't require braces and unless a program is nested in such a way that adding the braces anyway adds to the clarity, it is often clearer to omit the braces in that case. The if statement illustrates both ways in a single statement.
import java.util.Scanner;
public class avg
{
static int count = 0;
static double sum = 0;
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("\nEnter a sequence of positive numbers (0 to calculate average):\n");
while (true) {
System.out.print("Number? ");
int n = scanner.nextInt();
if (n < 0) {
System.out.println("Negative numbers not allowed.");
continue;
} else if (n == 0)
break;
sum += (double)n;
++count;
}
System.out.println("Average of " + count + " numbers = " +
(double)(sum / count) + "\n");
System.exit(1);
}
}
Sample output:
$ java avg
Enter a sequence of positive numbers (0 to calculate average)
Number? 1
Number? 2
Number? 3
Number? 4
Number? 5
Number? -6
Negative numbers not allowed.
Number? 0
Average of 5 numbers = 3.0
I am currently trying to find out the sum of digits in a number. However, I am experiencing problems when I display the sum as it still shows all the previous sums, not just the final sum of digits only that I want.
int rem = 0, sum = 0, input = 0;
Scanner k = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Enter a number");
input = k.nextInt();
while (input > 0){
rem = input % 10;
sum = sum + rem;
input = input / 10;
System.out.println(sum);
}
This is part of my program above. So for example, when I input the number 25, the program outputs the number 5 first then 7. I understand why it inputs the number 5 as it is the remainder when divided by 10 and since I initialised sum = 0 at the start, the first sum will come out as 5 since sum = 0 + 5. However, I only want the final digit sum to be displayed.
How should I approach this problem?
Any tips and advice would be greatly appreciated.
The while loop is the thing that compute the sum, so you need to print the result after the computing :
while (input > 0){
rem = input % 10;
sum = sum + rem; //same as : sum += rem
input = input / 10; //same as : input /= 10;
}
System.out.println(sum);
Next to that, whith some tricks, and remove rem variable, this is equivalent :
while (input > 0) {
sum += input % 10; //sum +=rem; --> sum += (input%10);
input /= 10;
}
System.out.println(sum);
Just print the result of the summation after the while loop. You find the every summation result of the number is because you print the result in your while loop.
You should do as follows:
while (input > 0){
rem = input % 10;
sum = sum + rem;
input = input / 10;
}
System.out.println(sum);
if your input is 25, then it will show the summation as 7.
As others said, the issue is that you print out the value of the sum variable inside your while loop.
Either you change your code to:
while (input > 0) {
sum += input % 10;
input /= 10;
}
System.out.println(sum);
or you can use streams:
public static void main(String[] args) {
//1. Step: Read the number
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Enter a number");
Integer input = scanner.nextInt();
scanner.close();
//2. Step: calculate the sum with streams
int sum = String.valueOf(input).chars().map(Character::getNumericValue).sum();
//3. Step: Print out the result
System.out.println(sum);
}
Essentially what happens in the second step is this:
We convert the integer into a string, we get the characters of the string and we call for each character using the map call the getNumericValue method to convert the character back to an integer, then we call the sum method to calculate the sum of these integers.
I'm trying to write a programme to prompt the user to input an int which is above or equal 2. From this input the programme must then calculate and print the sum of all the even integers between 2 and the entered int. It must also produce an error message if the inputted int is below 2. I've made a programme for it that works but am just wondering if you guys could find a better way of doing it? I'm sure there is but I can't quite seem to find a way that works!
Here's what I did:
import java.util.Scanner;
public class EvenSum {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Enter an integer which is above 2.");
int number = scan.nextInt();
int divnum = number / 2;
int divnum2 = divnum + 1;
int sumofeven = divnum * divnum2;
if(number >= 2)
System.out.println("The sum of the even integers between the number is "+
sumofeven);
else
System.out.println("Invalid number entered.");
}
}
Note: do not use this example in a real context, it's not effective. It just shows a more clean way of doing it.
// Check the input.
if (number >= 2)
System.out.println(sum(number));
}
// Will find the sum if the number is greater than 2.
int sum(int n) {
return n == 2 ? n - 2 : n % 2 == 0 ? n + sum(n - 2) : sum(n - 1);
}
Hope this helps. Oh, by the way, the method sum adds the numbers recursively.
Sorry, but I had to edit the answer a bit. There might still be room for improvement.
Why do it with a loop? You can actually calculate it out. Let X be the number they choose. Let N be the largest even number <= X. (N^2+2*N)/4 will be your answer.
Edit: just saw the answer above me. He is right. I gave the function I suppose.
Why use a loop at all? You are computing the sum of:
2 + 4 + ... n, where n is a positive even number.
This is a very simple arithmetic progression.
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Enter an integer which is above 2.");
int number = scan.nextInt();
if (number >= 2) {
int sumofeven = 0;
for (int i = 2; i <= number; i += 2) {
sumofeven += i;
}
System.out.println("The sum of the even integers between the number is " + sumofeven);
} else {
System.out.println("Invalid number entered.");
}
}