What does the following fragment of code display? What do you think the programmer intended the code to do, and how would you fix it? int product = 1; int max = 20; for (int i = 0; i < = max; i++) product = product * i; System. out. println ("The product is " + product);

Question

Computers and Technology

Caitlyn Powers

2 September, 13:05

What does the following fragment of code display? What do you think the programmer intended the code to do, and how would you fix it? int product = 1; int max = 20; for (int i = 0; i < = max; i++) product = product * i; System. out. println ("The product is " + product);

+2

Answers (1)

Know the Answer?

Yaretzi Baird · Answer 1

0

Explanation:

Given the code segment:

int product = 1; int max = 20; for (int i = 0; i < = max; i++) product = product * i; System. out. println ("The product is " + product);

Since the counter i in the for loop started with 0, and therefore product * i will always be 0 no matter how many rounds of loop to go through.

The code is likely to perform factorial calculation. To do so, we need to change the starting value for the counter i to 1.

int product = 1; int max = 20; for (int i = 1; i < = max; i++) product = product * i; System. out. println ("The product is " + product);