[RESOLVED] thanks! Program help? am i doin this right?? pleasee

[cthompson86]

The sum of the series 1/1 +1/2 +1/3.... never converges. Thus if you add enough terms you can reach any value/ For example it takes 4 terms of the series to reach 2 as 1 + 1/2 +1/3 +1/4 is 2.0833333 and 11 terms to reach 3.

AM i writing this program correctly???


Public Class Form1

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles calculate.Click

Dim thenumber As Integer
Dim theterms As Integer
Dim z As Integer
Dim n As Integer
Dim thesum As Decimal


thenumber = CInt(number.Text)
theterms = CInt(terms.Text)
thesum = CDec(sum.Text)

theterms = 1
thesum = 0
z = 1 / n
n = 1



Do While thesum < thenumber
thesum = z
z = z + z
n = n + 1

Loop



terms.Text = CStr(theterms)
sum.Text = CStr(thesum)

I keep getting an error messege.... please help i am desperate

[opus]

Where are your errors?

One should be here:

z = 1 / n

you set n=1 AFTER that line, so n is 0 and therefore you have a division by Zero!

[cthompson86]

good call. I stil get the same error messege though... Conversion from "" to type "integer" is not valid

[opus]

Where does this error occur?, it should be highlighted in yellow (at least in VB6, but I guess you use VB.Net).

[cthompson86]

im using vb 2005 express edition. no highlighting

[zynder]

Stop making duplicate threads.

Conversion maybe invalid if you have decimals on your textboxes? You try to convert it to an integer make sure it's really an integer.

Try CDbl and change your declaration to Dim Double.

[opus]

Try this:

theterms = CInt(terms.Text)
'theterms.text holds the maximum term (i.e. divisor) to be used!
 
thesum = 0
 
n = 1
z = 1 / n
 
 
Do While n < theterms
 
 
z = 1/(n + 1)
thesum = z+thesum
n=n+1
Loop
 
sum.Text = CStr(thesum)

[cthompson86]

ugghh I stil tried that and the error mesege popped up again about conversion

[zynder]

Try this.

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles calculate.Click
 
Dim thenumber As Double, theterms As Double, z As Double, n As Double, thesum As Double
 
thenumber = CDbl(number.Text)
theterms = CDbl(terms.Text)
thesum = CDbl(sum.Text)
 
theterms = 1
thesum = 0
n = 1
z = 1 / n
 
 
Do While thesum < thenumber
thesum = z
z = z + z
n = n + 1
 
Loop
 
terms.Text = CStr(theterms)
sum.Text = CStr(thesum)

[cthompson86]

now i get an error:

Conversion from string "" to type "double" is not valid

[zynder]

Weird. Try to change the last code to.

terms.Text = theterms
sum.Text = thesum

[opus]

It sounds like you have empty textboxes (sum.text, terms.text or number.text) when hitting the Button1! Try to catch that one or simply make a valid input!

[opus]

Sorry a had a typo in the code posted

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles calculate.Click
 
Dim thenumber As Double
Dim theterms As Double
Dim z As Double
Dim n As Double
Dim thesum As Double
 
theterms = CInt(terms.Text)
'theterms.text holds the maximum term (i.e. divisor) to be used!
 
thesum = 0
n = 1
Do While n <= theterms
  z = 1/(n)
  thesum = z+thesum
  n=n+1
Loop
 
sum.Text = CStr(thesum)
 
End Sub

[zynder]

Ok now im confused.

Change

thenumber = CDbl(number.Text)
theterms = CDbl(terms.Text)
thesum = CDbl(sum.Text)

To

thenumber = Val(number.Text)
theterms = Val(terms.Text)
thesum = Val(sum.Text)

[opus]

Ok now im confused.

What did confuse you?

[zynder]

Refer to post #10

It says Conversion from string "" to type "double" is not valid

Maybe the textbox has no value or has characters on it. There is no error on the code by the way.

[opus]

I still believe he gets this error, because he'S not checking wether the TextBox holds anything.

And for the code, I agree on "no errors" but does the code you copied from cthompson86 do the required job? I don't think so!

BTW cthompson86 seems to be gone, has he lost interest!

[cthompson86]

thank you very much I really appreciate it. I figured it out after i put val

-Chris

[Bruce Fox]

For what it's worth, your in the wrong Forum - you need to be in .Net. That said,
Val() is a hangover (in .Net) and should be used with caution - as you have found out, it can give wanted results, without the proper casting!