Why infinite loop gets created when num is decremented after continue statement?

Question

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Answer 1

At first, num is 5. Then it is decremented to 4 (num--) and 3 (num--). Then, when num equals 3, the loop will continue (i.e. jump back to the beginning of the loop) and num-- won't be executed anymore. num will stay at 3, the condition while(num > 0) will stay true and there will be an infinite loop.

Answer 2

Have you tried to debug the code, this usually gives more insight to the code.
when num == 3, you use the continue statement which kind of works like a break statement. but instead of breaking the loop or whatever it will go to the next iteration without subtracting num, thus creating an infinite loop.
Hope this helps!