how many times the body of loop will be executed?

Hi friends,

I have to answer this question. I think the loop will get executed infinite number of times. Am I right? or is there an trick in this question?

Q) how many times the body of loop will be executed?

X= 5;
y=50;
while (X<=y)
{
X = y /X
………….
}

 

The loop will be executed an infinite number of times indeed.

The value of x alters between 5 and 10 each time.

 

you are right

 

Infinite loop is right answer

 

That's an interesting loop.

 

x is less than y at start and x is event getting smaller with the division.
So the condition in "while" will be maintained true for any number of x = x/y executions.
Since there isn't any operation on y, this loop will run indefinitely.

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