• Author: Graham Mitchell
• Filename: OdometerLoops.java

Odometer Loops

Download the following code, and get it to compile.

Files Needed

• OdometerLoops.java

public class OdometerLoops
{
    public static void main( String[] args ) throws Exception
    {
        for ( int thous=0; thous<10; thous++ )
        {
            for ( int hund=0; hund<10; hund++ )
            {
                for ( int tens=0; tens<10; tens++ )
                {
                    for ( int ones=0; ones<10; ones++ )
                    {
                        System.out.print( " " + thous + "" + hund + "" + tens + "" + ones + "\r" );
                        Thread.sleep(10);
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        System.out.println();
    }
}

What You Should See

 9999

(It looks a little cooler in person.)

What You Should Do on Your Own

Assignments turned in without these things will receive no credit.

1. Delete all the open braces and close braces from all the outer for loops. (Leave the curly braces that belong to the innermost loop (the "ones" loop).) Does it still work? Answer in a comment.
2. Change all the loops so that they count from 0 to 7 instead of 0 to 9. This will display numbers in "octal" (base 8) instead of "decimal" (base 10).
3. Change the code so that the human gets to type in a number for the base, and your odometer counts up to that instead of 8. You might want to increase the delay (put a bigger number (like maybe 500) inside the Thread.sleep()).

After you've made all the changes, it should look something like this (except that all your numbers will be overwriting each other on the same line instead of printing on separate lines):

Which base (2-10): 2
 0000
 0001
 0010
 0011
 0100
 0101

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