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public class HarmonicTester
{
  public static void main ( String[] args )
  {
    int term=1, lastTerm = 6;
    double sum = 0.0;
    
    while ( term <= lastTerm )
    {
       sum += 1.0/term;           // add the next term to sum
       term++ ;                   // increment term
    }
    
    System.out.println("Sum of 6 terms:" + sum ) ;
  }
}

Recall that the expression 1.0/term is double precision floating point because the 1.0 is that type. The expression 1/term would call for integer division, and would compute integer zero.

You might wish to copy this program to your editor and run it. If you do, you will see something like:

C:\users>java HarmonicTester

Sum of 6 terms:2.4499999999999997

The inaccuracy of floating point resulted in the tail of 9's.

Answer:

Completed Program

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