Summation of numbers using prompts

I want the program to prompt the user for the value n (the number of values to be added together). I then want the program to prompt the user n times for a number, for it to the add these numbers together and finally print the result. Any help would be appreciated, thank you! This is my code so far:

function sumnnums(n);
prompt='Enter the value of n: ';
n=input(prompt);
sum=0;
for i=1:n
    prompt='Enter a number: ';
    x(i)=input(prompt);
end
sum=sum+x;
formatSpec='The sum of the numbers is %6.4f\n';
fprintf(formatSpec,x(i));
end

Answer 1

[Sindar]

Two errors:

• The function should not have n as an argument. Wait to ask the user
• don't use "sum" as a variable name; it's a function
• if you want to do "sum=sum+x" it needs to be in the loop and x needs to be a scalar. But, there's no reason to do it like that since you're already storing the results in an array. Just do this:

mysum = sum(x);

• if you've calculated the sum, why are you printing x(i)?