Question About Nested Loops

[Philip Jenson]

I was told to write a small program that finds the floor of logb(X). I took the main functionality of the program to create what I pasted below. In the program I have below, the base and x-value are already there - it's just for the concept.

I was told to use nested loops. However, I feel that the way I did it is fine. Would it be better if I used a nested loop? I'm not sure I would know exactly how to go about doing it, thought I'm sure there are a lot of ways to do it.

Thanks.

  class Help
{
  public static void main (String args[]) 
  {
     int b = 2;
     int x = 64;
     int quotient=b+1;
     int count=0;
          
     while (quotient >= b)
     {
        quotient = x / b;
        x = quotient;
        count++;
     }
      
     System.out.println(count);
     
   }
}  

[Joanne Neal]

If your assignment was to write a program that finds the floor of logb(X), then the method you use is up to you.
If your assignment was to write a program that uses nested loops, then you need to use nested loops.
You need to ask whoever gave you the assignment whether what you have done is okay.