The sum that is greater than the user input

Avuya Mxoli

Hello everyone, this is a class exercise that we were given to go think about and then we will share the answers in class...We are going to accept user input and then loop through adding to sum every time and checking if the value of sum is not bigger than the user input using pseudocode so here is my attempt and it is failing me(tested in c#):
accept input
i=1,sum = 0;
while sum do
sum = 0;
FOR i =1 and i <= sum
sum = sum +i
i++
END FOR
display (sum)

I used 10 to test, the sum is supposed to stop at 15 because:1+2+3+4+5 = 15 but I got 17 I dont knw what im missing plz help
Thanks

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Vulpes15y ago
You only need one loop here:

i = 1, sum = 0;

WHILE sum <= n
i++;
sum = sum + i;
END WHILE
display (sum)

or, in C#:

using System;

class Test
{
static void Main()
{
Console.Write("Enter number not to exceed : ");
int n = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
int i = 1;
int sum = 1;

while(sum <= n)
{
i++;
sum += i;
}

Display(i, sum);
Console.ReadKey();
}

static void Display(int i, int sum)
{
for(int j = 1; j <= i; j++)
{
Console.Write(j);
if (j < i) Console.Write(" + ");
}

Console.Write(" = {0}\n", sum);
}
}
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Lalit M15y ago
You can try

i=0,sum = 0;
while sum do
sum = 0;
FOR i =0 and i <= sum
sum = sum +i
i++
END FOR
display (sum)
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