Examples of C part 61 sum of serious part 1

Program:

#include<stdio.h>
main()
{
int i,n;
float sum=0;
printf("Enter value of n\n");
scanf("%d",&n);


for(i=1;i<=n;i++)
{
 sum+=(float)1/i;
}
printf("The value of\n");
for(i=1;i<=n;i++)
{
 if(i<n)
 {
  printf("1/%d+ ",i);
 }
 else
 {
  printf("1/%d= ",i);
 }
}
printf("%f\n",sum);
}

Output:
Enter value of n
8
The value of
1/1+ 1/2+ 1/3+ 1/4+ 1/5+ 1/6+ 1/7+ 1/8= 2.717857
Explanation:

Formula for this series: sum=1+1/2+1/3+1/4....+1/N

1. This program starts with initializing :
   • n → To store input from user
   • i →Used as helping variable
   • sum → To store output sum

2. printf("Enter value of n\n");
   scanf("%d",&n);
   

   Taking input from user

3. for(i=1;i<=n;i++)
   {
    sum+=(float)1/i;
   }

   For loop iterates from 1 to 'n'(say from example 8). Sum is initialized to zero
   • Iteration 1:i=1;1<=8(which is true so loop will execute)
     • sum+=(float)1/i →sum+(1/i)→0+1/1→sum=1
     • (float) is used to type cast*
     • Final values are sum= 1,i will be incremented to 2 so i=2.
       
   • Iteration 2:i=2;2<=8(which is true so loop will execute)
     • sum+=(float)1/i →sum+(1/i)→1+(1/2)→sum=1.5
     • Final values are sum= 1.5,i will be incremented to 3 so i=3.
       
   • Iteration 3:i=3;3<=8(which is true so loop will execute)
     • sum+=(float)1/i →sum+(1/i)→1.5+(1/3)→sum=1.83333
     • Final values are sum= 1.8333,i will be incremented to 4 so i=4.
       
   • This iteration continues till iteration 8 and after that i will become 9 which terminates the loop.Finally sum will be 2.717857

4. for(i=1;i<=n;i++)
   {
    if(i<n)
    {
     printf("1/%d+ ",i);
    }
    else
    {
     printf("1/%d= ",i);
    }
   
   }

   The previous loop will just obtain the sum and won't print 1/1+1/2+1/3+1/4...+1/8.To Print that the above for loop is used as the above loop iterates 8 times and if i<n then 1/i+ is printed and if i is not less than n which means the final value is printed with 1/i= at the end 
5. And finally sum is printed.

*Note:-Type casting is used to convert value of one datatype to another.For example if 1/2 is int then output is 0 whereas if it is float the output will be 0.5
While we are calculating 1/i it will give integer output as i is declared as integer(i.e. int i) but in our program it should give float value so to convert output from int to float we use typecasting.
So when we use (float)1/i, it will generate a float type output