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    Default how to make a program take time...

    Part of my assignment is to make a program where the user chooses 1 of the 7 basic running times and an example program is executed for that running time. Pardon my style as I have not programmed in Java for quite some time...
    import java.util.Scanner;
     
    class Runtimes
    {
    public static void main(String[]args)
    {
    String choice;
    Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.println("Enter one of the following:\n 'a' : constant.\n 'b': logarithmic \n 'c': linear\n 'd': n log n\n 'e': quadratic\n 'f': cubic\n 'g': exponential");
    choice = scan.nextLine();
    long start, end, elapsed;
     
    if(choice.equals("a"))
    {
    int test;
    for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
    {
    start = System.currentTimeMillis();
    test = 5 + 8 * 4 + 7;
    end = System.currentTimeMillis();
    System.out.println( "n = " + i + "elapsed time: " + (end - start));
    }
     
    }
     
    if(choice.equals("b"))
    {
    start = System.currentTimeMillis();
    end = System.currentTimeMillis();
    }
     
    if(choice.equals("c"))
    {
     for(int i = 1; i < 10; i++)
     {
     int [] numbers = new int[i];
     start = System.currentTimeMillis();
     for(int j = 0; j < i; j++)
    {
     
     }
    end = System.currentTimeMillis();
    System.out.println( "n = " + i + "elapsed time: " + (end - start));
    }
    }
     
    if(choice.equals("d"))
    {
    start = System.currentTimeMillis();
    end = System.currentTimeMillis();
    }
     
    if(choice.equals("e"))
    {
    start = System.currentTimeMillis();
    end = System.currentTimeMillis();
    }
     
    if(choice.equals("f"))
    {
    start = System.currentTimeMillis();
    end = System.currentTimeMillis();
    }
     
    if(choice.equals("g"))
    {
    start = System.currentTimeMillis();
    end = System.currentTimeMillis();
    }
     
     
    }
    }
    for now I'm just working with linear and constant... My problem is that each step takes less than a millisecond to execute so it comes out with just 0s. I need to find a way to make it wait. Please help, thanks in advance.


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    Default Re: how to make a program take time...

    Thread has a static function sleep which allows you to put the current thread to sleep for a specified duration. It takes the number of milliseconds to sleep as the parameter:

    try{
        Thread.sleep(1000);//sleep for 1 second
    }catch (InterruptedException e){
     
    }

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