Re: Steve Summit C notes , exercise

arnuld wrote:
it runs fine. i wanted to know if it needs any improvement:

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/* Steve Summit's C programming

Section 3 :: exercise 2

STATEMENT:
Write a program to compute the average of the ten numbers 1, 4,
9, ..., 81, 100,
that is, the average of the squares of the numbers from 1 to 10.

/* Since the sum of the squares of the integers 1 ... N is
N * (N + 1) * (2*N + 1) / 6,
and there are N integers in 1 ... N,
we have the following general function.
It could be a macro, instead.
Note the decimal points (there's one extra one
not needed). If the function is not required
to work except with N==10, replace the returned
expression with 38.5
*/

#include <stdio.h> /* not needed for the problem as stated, but
the actal program we will show the value
computed. */

inline double average_of_squares(int n)
{
return (n + 1.) * (2. * n + 1) / 6.;
}

/& To satisfy the requirements of the program, you need only :

int main(void)
{
average_of_squares(10);
return 0;
}

but showing the value computed is probably a good idea: */


int main(void)
{
printf("The average is %g\n", average_of_squares(10));
return 0;
}
.

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