I am trying to make the Collatz conjecture in JS but I have a problem and I do not understand it. When I click on the button it return me 0, can someone help me please?

My js code:

let input   = document.getElementById('nombre');
let btn     = document.getElementById('submit');
let output  = document.getElementById('output');
let coups;

let nombre = input.value;

function conjecture() {
    do {
        if (nombre%2 === 0) {
            nombre /= 2;
            output.innerHTML  = nombre   '<br>';
            coups   ;
        } else {
            nombre *= 3;
            nombre   ;
            output.innerHTML  = nombre   '<br>';
            coups  ;   
        }
    } while (nombre>1);

    output.innerHtml  = `La courbe a atterit en ${coups} coups.<br>`; 
}

btn.addEventListener('click', conjecture);

CodePudding user response：

You are reading the value before the user has had a chance to enter a number.

let nombre = input.value;

Make sure that line is inside your method which is called on click

function conjecture() {
     let nombre = input.value;
     ... rest of your code
}