The completed program is given below
public class HarmonicTester { public static void main ( String[] args ) { int term=1, lastTerm = 6; double sum = 0.0; while ( term <= lastTerm ) { sum += 1.0/term; // add the next term to sum term++ ; // increment term } System.out.println("Sum of 6 terms:" + sum ) ; } }
You might wish to copy this program to your editor and run it. If you do, you will see something like:
C:\users>java HarmonicTester Sum of 6 terms:2.4499999999999997
The inaccuracy of floating point resulted in the tail of 9's.
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