[Tutor] Loop comparison

[Lie Ryan]

On 04/16/10 16:50, Ark wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> A friend of mine suggested me to do the next experiment in python and Java.
> 
> It's a simple program to sum all the numbers from 0 to 1000000000.
> 
> result = i = 0
> while i < 1000000000:
>     result += i
>     i += 1
> print result
> 

Are you sure you're not causing Java to overflow here? In Java,
Arithmetic Overflow do not cause an Exception, your int will simply wrap
to the negative side.