C Program for n-th odd number



Given a number N we have to find the N-th odd number.

Odd numbers are the numbers which are not completely divided by 2 and their remainder is not zero. Like 1, 3, 5, 7, 9,….

If we closely observe the list of even numbers we can also represent them as

(2*1)-1=1, (2*2)-1=3,( 2*3)-1=5, (2*4)-1=7,….(2*N)-1.

So, to solve the problem we can simply multiply the number N with 2 and subtract 1 from the result, that makes up an odd number.

Examples

Input: 4 Output: 7 The 4th odd number is 1, 3, 5, 7.. Input: 10 Output: 19

Algorithm

START    STEP 1 -> Declare and assign an integer ‘n’.    STEP 2 -> Print n*2-1(odd number). STOP

Example

#include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char const *argv[]){    int n = 10;    //for odd numbers we can simply subtract 1 to the even numbers    printf("Nth odd number = %d", n*2-1);    return 0; }

Output

Nth odd number = 19
Updated on: 2019-09-23T11:46:16+05:30

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