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    Default Have trouble dealing with negative numbers.

    I am doing a primesum program. The aim of this program is to find the sum of prime integers. I have a problem here dealing with negative numbers. What should I add inside my code to ignore negative inputs? Anyone can help me?

    Here is my code below. It is doing something but it does not ignore my negative inputs.

    public class primesum
    {
    public static int checkPrime(int entry)
    {
    int x = entry; //Initial sum of the primes
    int count = 1; //The modulus factor
    while(count <= Math.sqrt(entry))
    {
    if(entry % count != 0)
    {
    count++; //Do the next modulus factor
    }
    else
    {
    x = 0;
    break;
    }
    }

    return x; //Adds all the sum up and returns the total sum
    }
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
    int x = 0;
    BufferedReader bR = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
    System.out.println("Please enter some 32-bit integers: ");
    int entry = 1;
    try{
    while(entry != 0){
    String line = bR.readLine();
    entry = Integer.parseInt(line);
    x += checkPrime(entry); //Checks whether x is a prime
    }
    }
    catch(Exception ex){
    System.out.println(ex);
    }
    System.out.println("The sum of the primes is " + x);

    }

    }


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    Default Re: Have trouble dealing with negative numbers.

    Try to use the code tags, it makes it so much easier to read and understand your code
    So all you want to do is handle negative numbers? Ignore them? or make them positive?

    What you could do is check if the number is negative for example with a statement. And then react on it.

    Also try to start your class with a capital letter, this is a common way of marking everything. just like how variables start with a smart letter.
    Last edited by elamre; July 27th, 2012 at 01:37 PM.

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    Default Re: Have trouble dealing with negative numbers.

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    Default Re: Have trouble dealing with negative numbers.

    Ok sorry, just trying to help here.
    I edited the post completely. That topic should be better accesible. I did not know it existed.
    I normally like to have the answer and then work backwards to figure out myself how it works. More fun for me . But i did not know this forum rather goes the teaching way. My bad.

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    Default Re: Have trouble dealing with negative numbers.

    I am trying to make the program ignore negative inputs to it. (So, when the user enters a negative number before a zero termination, the final output for the total sum of primes should not have negative numbers added to them.) This means the program only terminates when the user types in 0 with an enter key.

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    Default Re: Have trouble dealing with negative numbers.

    Quote Originally Posted by Arick Cheng View Post
    I am trying to make the program ignore negative inputs to it....
    With the way your program is organized you can do something like this:

    SET THE VALUE OF entry TO 1
    WHILE entry IS NOT EQUAL TO ZERO
    BEGIN LOOP
        GET a value of entry from the user.
        IF entry IS GREATER THAN TO ZERO
        THEN
           Do Something.
        END IF
    END LOOP


    A more user-friendly program with the same overall organization might look like this:

    SET THE VALUE OF entry TO 1
    WHILE entry IS NOT EQUAL TO ZERO
    BEGIN LOOP
        GET a value of entry from the user.
        IF entry IS GREATER THAN ZERO
        THEN
           Do Something.
        ELSE
            IF entry IS LESS THAN ZERO
            THEN
                TELL the user that negative values will be ignored.
            END IF
        END IF
    END LOOP
    Tell the user goodbye.

    Cheers!

    Z
    Last edited by Zaphod_b; July 29th, 2012 at 08:04 AM.

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    Default Re: Have trouble dealing with negative numbers.

    Well, you can use an
    if(statement)
    to check if the number is smaller then 0, and thus being negative. Then you could ignore negative numbers. And you could also check if the number is equal to 0.
    if(number==0)

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