Posts Tagged ‘math’

Prime numbers

Java 21.1.2011 No Comments

The assignment here is to calculate all prime numbers less than 100. The solution provided uses the following to determine if a given number is prime. 2 is prime Any number divisible by 2 is not prime If the number is divisible by any odd number then it is not prime Otherwise it is prime…

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Pythagoras Theorem

Java 13.12.2010 No Comments

One of our member students was asked to implement the Pythagoras Theorem using Java. This is a good opportunity to introduce the Math class which contains a collection of static methods for various mathematical functions. We need the square root method (sort) to calculate the hypotenuse, and can also use the pow() method to calculate…

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