Here is a C program to print Floyd's triangle using loop and recursion. A Floyd’s triangle is a right angled triangle of natural numbers, such that Nth row of triangle contains N consecutive numbers from left to right.
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This program print's Floyd's triangle till Nth rows.
C program to print Floyd's triangle using for loop
#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
int main() {
int i, j, rows, counter;
printf("Enter the number of rows of Floyd's triangle\n");
scanf("%d", &rows);
/* Print Floyd's triangle */
for (counter = 1, i = 1; i <= rows; i++) {
/* Print ith row */
for (j = 1; j <= i; j++) {
printf("%3d", counter++);
}
printf("\n");
}
return 0;
}
Output
Enter the number of rows of Floyd's triangle 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
C program to print Floyd's triangle using recursion
This program uses a user defined recursive function "printFloydTriangle", that takes current row(rowNumber) and total number of rows(totalRows) as input from user and prints current row of triangle and then recursively calls itself to print next row.
As we know that, Nth row of triangle contains N number, and all elements of triangle are consecutive natural numbers starting from 1. We can determine the first number of Nthrow by following expression.
- No of elements in 1st row = 1
- No of elements in 2nd row = 2
- No of elements in 3rd row = 3
- No of elements in Nst row = N
= 1 + 2 + 3 +....+ N = ((N+1)*N)/2 + 1
#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
void printFloydTriangle(int rowNumber, int totalRows);
int main() {
int rows;
printf("Enter the number of rows of Floyd's triangle\n");
scanf("%d", &rows);
printf("\n");
printFloydTriangle(1, rows);
return 0;
}
void printFloydTriangle(int rowNumber, int totalRows) {
int elementCount, counter;
/* Recursion termination condition */
if(rowNumber > totalRows)
return;
elementCount = ((rowNumber-1)*rowNumber)/2;
for (counter = 1; counter <= rowNumber; counter++) {
printf("%d ", ++elementCount);
}
printf("\n");
printFloydTriangle(rowNumber+1, totalRows);
}
Output
Enter the number of rows of Floyd's triangle 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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