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[Nightblaze1]

How would you make a loop to solve the following summation: sqrt (3) / (1 x 2) + sqrt (4) / (2 x 3) + sqrt (5) / (3 x 4) + ... + sqrt (99) / (97 x 98) + sqrt (100) / (98 x 99).

Here is what I can get:


double sum, x, y, z;
    x = 3;
    y = 1;
    z = 2;
    sum = 0;

    while (x <= 100)
    {
          sum = sqrt (x) / (y * z);
          x++;
          y++;
          z++;
          }

cout << "The summation = " << sum << endl;

I am stumped on how to complete this loop to get the right answer. =(

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Flashk]

I don't see a problem on your algorithm, but... just this:

sum = sqrt (x) / (y * z);

shouldn't be this?:

sum += sqrt (x) / (y * z);

[Kryses]

double sum = 0;
int x;

for(x=3; x<=100; x++) {
  sum+= sqrt(x)/((x-2)(x-1));
}

[Nightblaze1]

Flashk, on 21 November 2012 - 01:21 AM, said:

I don't see a problem on your algorithm, but... just this:

sum = sqrt (x) / (y * z);

shouldn't be this?:

sum += sqrt (x) / (y * z);

Thank you so much!!!! Lol, I couldn't figure out what was going wrong haha! =)

[Flashk]

You are welcome!

[RavenNL]

Or as a Python list comprehension:

sum(math.sqrt(x) / ((x-2)*(x-1)) for x in range(3,101)) = 2.244

Sorry, couldn't resist

Edited by RavenNL, 21 November 2012 - 11:56 AM.