Teaching UGC NET Mock Test Series 2025 (Paper 1 & 2) Programming and Data Structure Programming in C
Consider the following pseudo-code fragment, where a and b are integer variables that have
been initialized:
/* Pre-conditions : (a > 1 ∧ a < b) */
/* Assume that overflow never occurs */
int x = 0; int p = 1;
while (p < b) {
p = p * a;
x = x + 1;
}
When the while loop terminates, what will be the value of x in terms of a and b ?
1
ab
2
ba
3
\(\left[ {\log _a^b/*} \right]\left[ \; \right]means\;floor*/\)
4
\(\left[ {\log _a^b/*} \right]\left[ \; \right]means\;ceil*/\)