Newb Java Question

This sounds a bit like homework, which is against our policies for this forum. Have you tried thinking about the steps you would take to get the values you want?

Some things to consider:

1.) If you only have one digit, the answer is that digit (e.g., the sum of the digits of the number 7 is 7).

2.) If you have n digits, the answer is the last digit plus the sum of the remaining n-1 digits.

Note that statement [2] suggests that an easy recursive solution; just take the last digit and re-call your own method with the shortened number. For instance, if the number is 67281, you would call SumOfDigits(67281), which would result in a call to SumOfDigits(1) + SumOfDigits(6728), which would become 1 + SumOfDigits(8) + SumOfDigits(672), and so on.

hope that helps,

You should do a little research on the % and / operators.

That should get you started with coming up with an algorithm.

-JR

Two ways I can think off.

	public int addUp(int i)	{		int num =0;		int div = 1;		if(i == 0) return num;		while(true)		{			if(i / div < 10)			{				num += i /div;				num += addUp(i - (div * (i / div)));				break;			}			div *= 10;		}		return num;	}

	public int sAddUp(int i)	{		String s = Integer.toString(i);		int num = 0;				for(int t=0; t< s.length();t++)			num += Character.digit(s.charAt(t),10);		return num;	}

Both these functions should return the sum of the digits in the integer passed in to them. There is probably better ways but this is all I could think of at the top of my head.

[Edited by - clearz on September 17, 2006 7:48:48 AM]

0) "Newb questions" are best placed in For Beginners (it appears at the top of the forum listing for a reason; so it will be noticed).

1) We don't do homework here.

2) Your question, being about the algorithm, isn't really Java-specific.

3) How do you access digits of a number when you do it yourself on paper? What, just look at it? OK, smart guy, how will you get digits of the number as represented in a different base? :) Think about how bases and numerical representations work, and you should be able to figure out how you *really* extract this information (without just "looking").