Re: while/for statement — what's wrong in a code?

[Liam Groener]

On Apr 30, 2011, at 2:53 AM, alhaim wrote:

> 
> Hi everybody. This is my Octave code
> 
>    for K= 1:10
>    while ( p < 1 )
>        ceil(log2(K))  +  1/(1-(1-p)^K) %function
>        p = p + sens;
>        K
>    endwhile;
> endfor
> 
> K
> 
> and here is an output:
> 
> ans =  10.000
> K =  1
> ans =  5.0000
> K =  1
> ans =  3.3333
> K =  1
> ans =  2.5000
> K =  1
> ans =  2
> K =  1
> ans =  1.6667
> K =  1
> ans =  1.4286
> K =  1
> ans =  1.2500
> K =  1
> ans =  1.1111
> K =  1
> ans =  1
> K =  1
> K =  10
> 
> So, as you can see -- in inner while statement value of K is fixed to 1.
> What I am supposed to do to vary this value between 1 and 10. Why it is not


Before the start of the for loop initialize p to 0 or whatever? The way you've 
written it, p will always be greater than 1 for all K's above 1.