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JavaScript JavaScript Loops, Arrays and Objects Simplify Repetitive Tasks with Loops What are Loops?

Jennifer Ciaccio
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Why am I only getting 5 random numbers instead of 10?

I cant see anything wrong with my code, yet when I preview my workspace, its only giving me 5 random numbers, not 10. And when I changed 10 to 100, it only gave me about 40.

function randomNumber(upper) { return Math.floor( Math.random() * upper ) + 1; } var counter = 0; while(counter < 10) { counter += 1;
var randNum = randomNumber(6); document.write(randNum + ' ' ); counter+=1; }

I can't figure out what I'm missing.

2 Answers

You increment counter twice in the while loop. So the first time through, counter becomes 2 (0 + 1 + 1). The second time, counter becomes 4, etc. After 5 times counter is 10 so the loop stops running.