Create Simple Adding

Author: ratracegrad

Simple Adding

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+/***************************************************************************************
+*                                                                                      *
+*                  CODERBYTE BEGINNER CHALLENGE                                        *
+*                                                                                      *
+*  Simple Adding                                                                       *
+*  Using the JavaScript language, have the function SimpleAdding(num) add up all the   *
+*  numbers from 1 to num. For the test cases, the parameter num will be any number     *
+*  from 1 to 1000.                                                                     *
+*                                                                                      *
+*  SOLUTION                                                                            *
+*  This is a simple iterative function that add each number in sequence.               *
+*                                                                                      *
+*  Steps for solution                                                                  *
+*    1) Set var tot to 0.                                                              *
+*    2) Loop from 1 to num and add i by tot to get new tot.                            *
+*    3) Return tot for answer.                                                         *
+*                                                                                      *
+***************************************************************************************/
+
+function SimpleAdding(num) { 
+
+  var tot = 0;
+  for (var i = 1; i <= num; i++) {
+    tot += i;
+  }
+  
+  return tot; 
+         
+}