Java Program to Display First N Terms of an Arithmetic Progression

This post contains java program to display first n terms of an AP (arithmetic progression). Generally the following equation to find n^th term of arithmetic progression is used.

n^th term of AP = a + (n - 1) * d

where a is first term and d is common difference. Using a loop we will display each term until we reach n^th term. But here since we use a loop, for the program it is enough to keep on adding the common difference. We need not to use the above equation each time. The java program to display first n terms of a arithmetic progression (AP) is as follows:

public class APTerms {
public static void main(String[] arg)
    {
    int a,d,n;
    Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.println("Enter first term, common difference and n (number of terms)");
    a=sc.nextInt()-(d=sc.nextInt());
    n=sc.nextInt();
    for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
        System.out.print(" "+(a+=d));
    }
}