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Potential infinite loop while num > 700

Altcademy Team wrote on 7 February 2018

potential infinite loop while num > 700. https://freecodecamp.cn/challenges/sum-all-primes
function sumPrimes(num) { var arr = []; var ifTrue = 1; for (var i = 2; i < num; i ++) { ifTrue = 1; for (var j = 2; j < i; j ++) { if (i % j === 0) { ifTrue = 0; } } if (ifTrue == 1) { arr.push(i); } } num = arr.reduce(function(a,b) { return a + b ; }); return num; }

Hi @Lijianliang1997, as your code wasn't really working. I made slight modification to it and is now working.
function sumPrimes(num) { var arr = []; for (var i = 2; i <= num; i ++) { var divisible = false; for (var j = 2; j < i; j ++) { if (i !== j && i % j === 0) { divisible = true; } } if (divisible === false) { arr.push(i); } } num = arr.reduce(function(a,b) { return a + b ; }); return num; } sumPrimes(1000); //=> 76127


The key was this if statement
if (i !== j && i % j === 0) { divisible = true;}

You only divide if you are not dividing it by itself. Other wise you will get 0 since 2%2 => 0

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