[java] Calculate average in java

EDIT: Ive written code for the average, but i dont know how to make it so that it also uses ints from my args.length rather than the array

I need to write a java program that can calculate: 1. the number of integers read in 2. the average value—which need not be an integer!

NOTE! i dont want to calculate the average from the array but the integers in the args.

Currently i have written this:

int count = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i<args.length -1; ++i)
        count++;
    System.out.println(count);

     }

int nums[] = new int[] { 23, 1, 5, 78, 22, 4};
double result = 0; //average will have decimal point
    {
    for(int i=0; i < nums.length; i++){
    result += nums[i];
    }
    System.out.println(result/count)
 }

Can anyone guide me in the right direction? Or give an example that guides me in the write way to shape this code?

Thanks in advance

I'm going to show you 2 ways. If you don't need a lot of stats in your project simply implement following.

public double average(ArrayList<Double> x) {
    double sum = 0;
    for (double aX : x) sum += aX;
    return (sum / x.size());
}

If you plan on doing a lot of stats might as well not reinvent the wheel. So why not check out http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-math/userguide/stat.html

You'll fall into true luv!

int values[] = { 23, 1, 5, 78, 22, 4};

int sum = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < values.length; i++)
    sum += values[i];

double average = ((double) sum) / values.length;

 System.out.println(result/count) 

you can't do this because result/count is not a String type, and System.out.println() only takes a String parameter. perhaps try:

double avg = (double)result / (double)args.length

This

for (int i = 0; i<args.length -1; ++i)
    count++;

basically computes args.length again, just incorrectly (loop condition should be i<args.length). Why not just use args.length (or nums.length) directly instead?

Otherwise your code seems OK. Although it looks as though you wanted to read the input from the command line, but don't know how to convert that into an array of numbers - is this your real problem?

It seems old thread, but Java has evolved since then & introduced Streams & Lambdas in Java 8. So might help everyone who want to do it using Java 8 features.

• In your case, you want to convert args which is String[] into double or int. You can do this using Arrays.stream(<arr>). Once you have stream of String array elements, you can use mapToDouble(s -> Double.parseDouble(s)) which will convert stream of Strings into stream of doubles.
• Then you can use Stream.collect(supplier, accumulator, combiner) to calculate average if you want to control incremental calculation yourselves. Here is some good example.
• If you don't want to incrementally do average, you can directly use Java's Collectors.averagingDouble() which directly calculates and returns average. some examples here.

Instead of:

int count = 0;
for (int i = 0; i<args.length -1; ++i)
    count++;
System.out.println(count);

 }

you can just

int count = args.length;

The average is the sum of your args divided by the number of your args.

int res = 0;
int count = args.lenght;

for (int a : args)
{
res += a;
}
res /= count;

you can make this code shorter too, i'll let you try and ask if you need help!

This is my first answerso tell me if something wrong!

public class MainTwo{
    public static void main(String[] arguments) {
        double[] Average = new double[5];
        Average[0] = 4;
        Average[1] = 5;
        Average[2] = 2;
        Average[3] = 4;
        Average[4] = 5;
        double sum = 0;
        if (Average.length > 0) {
            for (int x = 0; x < Average.length; x++) {
                sum+=Average[x];
                System.out.println(Average[x]);
            }
            System.out.println("Sum is " + sum);
            System.out.println("Average is " + sum/Average.length);
      }
   }
}

If you're trying to get the integers from the command line args, you'll need something like this:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    int[] nums = new int[args.length];
    for(int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
        try {
            nums[i] = Integer.parseInt(args[i]);
        }
        catch(NumberFormatException nfe) {
            System.err.println("Invalid argument");
        }
    }

    // averaging code here
}

As for the actual averaging code, others have suggested how you can tweak that (so I won't repeat what they've said).

Edit: actually it's probably better to just put it inside the above loop and not use the nums array at all

for 1. the number of integers read in, you can just use length property of array like :

int count = args.length

which gives you no of elements in an array. And 2. to calculate average value : you are doing in correct way.