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Homework Statement
Write a program that takes a command line argument N and a sequence of N positive integers and prints the numbers that are prime only, followed by their sum.
Homework Equations
for loop
The Attempt at a Solution
This has been a vexing program to think of. We were asked to write a program that takes an integer N and outputs true if N is prime and false if N is not prime. The code is as follows:
Code:
public class Primes
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
int numb = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
int i;
boolean ifPrime;
for (i = 2; i < numb; i++)
{
int n = numb % i;
if (n == 0)
{
ifPrime = false;
System.out.println(numb + " is not a prime number, hence " + ifPrime);
break;
}
}
if (i == numb)
{
ifPrime = true;
System.out.println(numb + " is a prime number, hence " + ifPrime);
}
}
}
Although we haven't actually covered the break command, but I didn't know how to code it without it.
Now, the question above is a little confusing to me, particularly the wording. Does it want to take a command-line value N then N numbers afterward or is it something else?
The way I thought of it is to first write a method of type boolean that studies the integer(s) and then returns true or false if prime or not. We enter a loop in the main method that loops over args where i is an initialization variable (int), then use if to compare the returned boolean value if. But here's where I hit the wall. What's next? How do you continue from here?
This is my last question, I hope.