Loop and input question

I need to create a loop that ask for s user inputed number and then adds odds number starting at 1 until target number is reached.

[Image Analyst]

OK. Good luck with that. Feel free to post your code and ask a question after reading this if you need help.

[Image Analyst]

What's an "odds number"? Do you mean odds, as in chance or probability? Maybe use rand() or randn(). Or did you mean "an odd number" like 1,3,5,7, etc.? If so, which number? Or do you need to ask the user for one?

Answer 1

[Stalin Samuel]

%If you are trying to find the sum of all odd no's between  1 and s (i.e s is your limit ) 
  prompt = 'What is the value of s? ';
  s = input(prompt)
  O_Sum = 1
  for i = 2:s
   if mod(i,2)   
      O_Sum  = O_Sum +i
   end
  end

[Stephen23]

This is a very inefficient loop: only half of the iterations actually perform anything useful. Rather than wasting lots of iterations, MATLAB easily iterates only over the odd values only, which means that the if statement is also not required:

s = input('What is the value of s? ','s');
x = 0;
for k = 1:2:str2double(s)
    x = x+k;
end

Of course the whole thing would in any case be much neater and faster by using MATLAB's code vectorization abilities, which reduces this task to one simple sum command:

sum(1:2:str2double(s))

Answer 2

[Maneet Kaur Bagga]

As per my uderstanding you want to create a loop which asks for an input from the user and returns the sum of odd numbers between 1 and the input number. Please find the code below as a solution. Hope it helps!

x = 100

x = 100

% You can use x = input() to take input from the user
num_sum = sum(1:2:x)

num_sum = 2500