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The document describes a subroutine called nextN that computes the next term in a sequence based on whether the current term is odd or even. It also includes a print3NSequence function that utilizes nextN to print the 3N+1 sequence starting from a given value, along with a count of the terms in the sequence. Additionally, it provides an example of a letterGrade function that returns a letter grade based on a numerical grade input.

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The document describes a subroutine called nextN that computes the next term in a sequence based on whether the current term is odd or even. It also includes a print3NSequence function that utilizes nextN to print the 3N+1 sequence starting from a given value, along with a count of the terms in the sequence. Additionally, it provides an example of a letterGrade function that returns a letter grade based on a numerical grade input.

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136 CHAPTER 4.

SUBROUTINES

static int nextN(int currentN) {


int answer; // answer will be the value returned
if (currentN % 2 == 1) // test if current N is odd
answer = 3*currentN+1; // if so, this is the answer
else
answer = currentN / 2; // if not, this is the answer
return answer; // (Don’t forget to return the answer!)
}
Here is a subroutine that uses this nextN function. In this case, the improvement from the
version of this subroutine in Section 4.3 is not great, but if nextN() were a long function that
performed a complex computation, then it would make a lot of sense to hide that complexity
inside a function:
static void print3NSequence(int startingValue) {
int N; // One of the terms in the sequence.
int count; // The number of terms found.
N = startingValue; // Start the sequence with startingValue.
count = 1;
TextIO.putln("The 3N+1 sequence starting from " + N);
TextIO.putln();
TextIO.putln(N); // print initial term of sequence
while (N > 1) {
N = nextN( N ); // Compute next term, using the function nextN.
count++; // Count this term.
TextIO.putln(N); // Print this term.
}
TextIO.putln();
TextIO.putln("There were " + count + " terms in the sequence.");
}

∗ ∗ ∗
Here are a few more examples of functions. The first one computes a letter grade corre-
sponding to a given numerical grade, on a typical grading scale:
/**
* Returns the letter grade corresponding to the numerical
* grade that is passed to this function as a parameter.
*/
static char letterGrade(int numGrade) {
if (numGrade >= 90)
return ’A’; // 90 or above gets an A
else if (numGrade >= 80)
return ’B’; // 80 to 89 gets a B
else if (numGrade >= 65)
return ’C’; // 65 to 79 gets a C
else if (numGrade >= 50)
return ’D’; // 50 to 64 gets a D
else

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