Thread: Java Program Help Please

Print out 5 biggest factors of a number that is entered.

I need help writing a program that will print out the 5 biggest factors of a number that is entered.

For example:
Enter A Number: 100
The 5 Biggest Factors Are: 100, 50, 25, 20, 20.

But if the number has less than 5 factors print out those factors.
For example:
Enter A Number: 7
The factors for 7 are : 1,7

Thanks Alot..

What will be the first step?

I was thinking more practically, kind of along the lines of,

public class BiggestFactor {
 
  // stuff gets added here
 
  public static void main(String[] args) {
     // more stuff gets added here
  }
}

les say u looking for 5 biggest factor of x. i would use a loop. and in side i would do x % x--. if the ans is 0 than u know thats a factor. so you might want to add a control if statment in side loop, which will tell you if u found a factor or not.

this will give you all the factor stating from biggest to smallest. and if you looking for just biggest 5. than just use a counter variable which will count 5 variable. onces you count 5 than exit from loop.