Thread: Monthly payment Calculation Error's Please Help

Hello I have a project for school and my teacher never did a great job at explaining how to do certain aspects of my code. I've done a lot of research on Java and how to get this to work but none worked and i've been working on this code for over 48 hours trying to get this math to work.
Basically I have to make a program that can do monthly payment's.
If I enter a loan amount of :100,000
with the rate of :6
and the years being :30
I should get back about :$599.55

Also if I enter1: 10,000
with the rate being 4.5
years being 3
I should get back about $ 297.47

Here's my code.

package monthypayment2;
import java.util.Scanner;
 
 
public class Monthypayment2 {
        private static double monthlypay;
    private static double monthlypay1;
    private static String choice;
 
 
 
    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
 
 
        double months = 0;
        double numyears;
        double loanamount;
        double rate;
 
 
 
 
        //prompt loan amount
        System.out.print("Enter Loan Amount:");                           //promp the user
        loanamount = in.nextDouble();
 
        //prompt rate
        System.out.print("Enter Rate:");
         rate = in.nextDouble();
 
         //prompt years
        System.out.print("Enter Number of Years:");
        numyears = in.nextDouble();
 
 
      //calculate
       monthlypay1 = loanamount * rate / (1 - 1 / Math.pow(1 + rate, months));
 
        System.out.println("The Monthly Payment is: $" + monthlypay1);
 
        System.out.print("Would you like to calculate again?:(y/n)");
 
        choice = in.next();
        System.out.println();
    }
}

Any Help would be appreciated.
also when I run my code I get the monthyly payment is :$Infinity.
When i put months as a value of 12 i will get something like $600000488.65

But I thought I needed the months for the Math.pow(1 + rate, Insert another double here);

Your response makes no sense. Of course you need months, and you need it to be something other than zero. Look at your code and determine if months is ever set to something other than zero. If not, you should fix that.

Ok I think the problem is I don't have the rate as a percentage. I've tried setting my month's to a different number but alas I get the same results.

I don't know why we're not communicating. The problem is not that mysterious or difficult. The problem is:

double months = 0;

and that never changes.

Well that and I just realized I was diving by 0.. "(1-1 / math.pow(1 + rate, months));" So I fixed the coding in the math to

        monthlypay1 = loanamount * rate / (Math.pow(1 + rate, months)) / (Math.pow(1 + rate, months)-1);

. Thanks for pointing that out.

--- Update ---

This is my new code.

/*
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package monthypayment2;
import java.util.Scanner;
 
/**
 *
 * @author Aj Miles
 */
public class Monthypayment2 {
    private static double monthlypay1;
    private static String choice;
 
 
 
    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
 
 
        double months = 0;
        double numyears;
        double loanamount;
        double rate;
 
 
 
 
        //prompt loan amount
        System.out.print("Enter Loan Amount:");                           
        loanamount = in.nextDouble();
 
        //prompt rate
        System.out.print("Enter Rate:");
         rate = in.nextDouble();
 
         //prompt years
        System.out.print("Enter Number of Years:");
        numyears = in.nextDouble();
 
 
      //calculate
       monthlypay1 = loanamount * rate / (Math.pow(1 + rate, months)) / (Math.pow(1 + rate, months)-1);
 
 
        System.out.println("The Monthly Payment is: $" + monthlypay1);
 
 
 
 
         If (monthlypay1 < 0) {
                 System.out.println("You need to enter positive numerical data!");
    }
 
         Else {
        System.out.println("Would you like to calculate again?: (Y/N)"); }
 
 
 
    }
 
    }
 
 
    }

Was seeing if anyone can help me out with the boolean statement.
I've looked at a couple of examples of boolean statements but wasn't very helpful. (how to use boolean data type in Java)
Basically what i'm trying to do is if the user enters' say a negative number after everything is done it will tell the user
to enter positive numerical data. If he enters a positive number it will ask him if he wants to continue calculations again?