Programming for Beginners

5. if and for Statements

Counting Backwards

What follows is a program that prints out the first five natural numbers backwards, that is from the greatest number towards the smallest:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    for(double i=1;i<=5;i++)
        cout << 6-i << endl;
}

Upon execution, this program results in the following output:

5
4
3
2
1

Exercise: Modify this program so that it prints out the first 100 natural numbers, ordered backwards.