For-loop returning wrong results

Question

I am getting wrong results resolving below task:

Generalized harmonic numbers. Write a program GeneralizedHarmonic.java that takes two integer command-line arguments n and r and uses a for loop to compute the nth generalized harmonic number of order r, which is defined by the following formula: formula

public class GeneralizedHarmonic {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        int a = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
        int b = Integer.parseInt(args[1]);
        int i;
        double sum = 0;
        for (i = 0; i <= a; i++) {
            sum += 1 / Math.pow(i, b);
        }
        System.out.println(sum);
    }
}

This is my code but I could not get the correct test output.The output result is always Infinity. test outputs

Answer 1

You have initliazed int i = 0 in for-loop for (i = 0; i <= a; i++) and so the first element of your harmonic number isn't , but .

The code that works:

public class GeneralizedHarmonic {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        int a = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
        int b = Integer.parseInt(args[1]);
        double sum = 0;
        for (int i = 1; i <= a; i++) {
            sum += 1 / Math.pow(i, b);
        }
        System.out.println(sum);
    }
}