Java infinite loop (problem statement)

Instead of posting your code at some remote site, why not just put it directly in your post, like this?

Also, when you post code here, put [noparse]

Code (Text):

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[/noparse] tags around it.

Code (Text):

class SumsLimit {

     public static void main (String args[])
    {
       double sum = 1.0 ;
       int term = 2 , x= 0;

       /*              
        *       1-1/2+1/3-1/4..stop when Sum is approximately 0.6931.
        *       and as long as term is greater than 0.0001
        *       your loop goes here  
        *       (a for, while or do while loop your choice)
        *       for (x = 0; x <= 5000; x++)
        *       while (term < 5000 )
        */

       while ((term >.0001)  )
       {
          System.out.println (  sum);
          System.out.println ( "\n" + x);
          if (term % 2 == 0)
             sum = sum - (1/(double)term) ;
          else sum = sum + (1/(double)term);
          //end if
          term++;
          x++;
          System.out.println (  sum);
          System.out.println ( "\n" + x);
       } // end loop
               
    } // end main                          

} // end SumsLimit
 

On the offchance that you don't know why the code above is wrong, term is defined as an int, so why is it checking to see if term > .0001?

 

Which is really irrelevant. If you want help, make it as easy as possible on the people helping you, by posting the code directly right here. I would venture to say that some people would not want to go to the trouble of clicking a link to see the code.

Having the code here allows us to insert a comment at exactly the right point in your code, and not have to describe verbally where the problem is. Plus we don't have to deal with writing something in one window while looking at the code in another window.