why if else condition is not working inside for loop

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var n=25;
for(i=2;i<n;i++){
if(n%i==0){
console.log('this is not prime');
}
else{
console.log('this is prime');
}
}

Accepted Answer

Jyotirmay Mishra
Jyotirmay Mishra on 16 Jul 2020
Your code is not a MATLAB code
To do something like this in MATLAB
n = 25;
for i =1:n
if(mod(n,i)==0)
disp('this is not prime');
else
disp('this is prime');
end
end

More Answers (1)

Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 16 Jul 2020
The if condition is working the way you programmed it.
If you want to test for something being prime, you need to test for all of the non-prime possibilities first, and you should only display that the number is prime after you have finished ruling out the possibility of a divisor.

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