// Burton Rosenberg // Wed Feb 4 1998 // SumOdd.java import java.io.* ; class SumOdd { public static void main( String [] argv ) throws IOException { BufferedReader stdin = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader(System.in)) ; System.out.print("N: " ) ; int i ; i = Integer.parseInt(stdin.readLine()) ; System.out.print( "The sum of the first " + i + " odd numbers is " ) ; System.out.println( sumOddNumbers( 2*i-1 ) + ".") ; } static int sumOddNumbers( int oddNumber ) { // oddNumber should be an odd integer. if ( oddNumber<1 ) { return 0 ; } else { return (oddNumber + sumOddNumbers( oddNumber-2 )) ; } } }