I'm very new to programming so forgive if this question is a bit stupid. Anyway I'm making this console program that is supposed to calculate total damage per hit after bonus damage is applied. Example: damage is 100 per hit with 0 initial bonus damage that increases by 50 per hit. The program is supposed to calculate the total damage after N amounts of hits.

This is what I came up with:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(){
    
int n;
int bonusDam = 0;
int i;
int b;
int a;
scanf("%d", &n);

for (i = 1; i <= n; i  ){
    b = 100   bonusDam;
    bonusDam = bonusDam   50;
    printf("Hit %d : %d\n", i, b);
}

    return 0;
}

I figured out how to calculate the bonus damage but not the total damage after N amounts of hits. Is a for loop a good idea or no? If i input 3 it'll output "100, 150, 200" but what I want to do is to add them all up like "100 150 200 = 450" Where in the end the console only shows "450"

CodePudding user response：

I just want to add that there is no need for a for loop to calculate the final result

int b = 100 * n   50 * n * (n - 1) / 2;

CodePudding user response：

One easy solution is to set b = 0; right before the loop and replace

b = 100 bonusDam;

with

b = b 100 bonusDam;

This will effectively turn b into the total damage, by accumulating the value after every iteration. By moving printf("Hit %d : %d\n", i, b); outside of the loop, you should get the result you want.