This program is driving me nuts!!!

[baseballer10p]

I'm having trouble with yet another Java problem for this class I'm taking in college. I'm supposed to add 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 +...+ 1/15, and print out the result using a for, do-while, or a while statement. Ill paste what I have right now.

double i, sum3;

sum3 = 0;

for (i = 1/15; i <= 1/15; i = i + (1/14))
{
sum3 = sum3 + i;
}

System.out.println("The sum of 1 + (1/2) + (1/3) + (1/4) +...+ 1/15 = " + sum3);

I know this is wrong, but I can't even get the system to print out anything to the command console. Also, I'm not sure if I'm using the right type of statement for this particular problem. If anyone knows how to do this, please help me. This one is driving me crazy!

[PCBrandon]

You could do something like this:

public class asdf
{
    public static void main(String [] args) {
        double sum = 0;

        for (int i = 1; i <= 15; i++) {
            sum += (1/(double)(i));
        }
        System.out.println(sum);
    }
}

[baseballer10p]

Alright, that worked! Thanks a lot for the help.

[DougL]

I don't know about anyone else but that went straight over my head!!! you clever people lol

Doug