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Unable to print results

Apr 18th, 2009

I am doing a small program using a function to print out the real root or imaginary root. The problem is, it only prints out what the numbers that the user input. However, it does not print out the rest.

For Example:

It prints out this:
a = 4 b = 5 c = 3

instead of

a = 4 b = 5 c = 3
root1 = <answer> root2 = <answer>
or
The imaginary number is <answer>

My program is below.

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<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
 
<html xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 
<head>
 
<script type = "text/javascript">
 
 
function printRoot(a,b,c)
{
var root1;
var root2;
var radicand = b*b-4.0*a;
var imagpart;
var realpart;
 
if (radicand >= 0.0)
{
root1 = -b+math.sqrt(radicand)/(2.0*a);
root2 = -b-math.sqrt(radicand)/(2.0*a);
 
document.writeln("root1 = "+root1+"root2 = "+root2);
}
 
else
{
realpart = -b/(2.0*a);
imagpart = math.sqrt(math.abs(radicand))/(2.0*a);
 
document.writeln("The imaginary root is"+realpart+" + "+imagpart+"i");
}
}
 
 
var a;
var b;
var c;
 
a = window.prompt("Please enter for a");
b = window.prompt("Please enter for b");
c = window.prompt("Please enter for c");
 
 
while (a != 0.0)
{
document.writeln("a = " + a +" b = " + b + " c = " + c);
printRoot(a,b,c);
}
 
 
 
 
 
</script>
 
 
 
</head>
 
<body>
 
</body>
 
</html>
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<script type = "text/javascript">


function printRoot(a,b,c)
{
var root1;
var root2;
var radicand = b*b-4.0*a;
var imagpart;
var realpart;

if (radicand >= 0.0)
{
root1 = -b+math.sqrt(radicand)/(2.0*a);
root2 = -b-math.sqrt(radicand)/(2.0*a);

document.writeln("root1 = "+root1+"root2 = "+root2);
}

else
{
realpart = -b/(2.0*a);
imagpart = math.sqrt(math.abs(radicand))/(2.0*a);

document.writeln("The imaginary root is"+realpart+" + "+imagpart+"i");
}
}


var a;
var b;
var c;

a = window.prompt("Please enter for a");
b = window.prompt("Please enter for b");
c = window.prompt("Please enter for c");


while (a != 0.0)
{
document.writeln("a = " + a +" b = " + b + " c = " + c);
printRoot(a,b,c);
}





</script>



</head>

<body>

</body>

</html>

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Re: Unable to print results

Apr 18th, 2009

seems fine but a tip is dont use document.writeln.
try having a content area in the page e.g. a "<div>" then give this element and ID and set its innerHTML property to the text you want.

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document.getElementById('someelement').innerHTML += 'your text';
document.getElementById('someelement').innerHTML += 'your text';