Please break this down

Question

// I am self teaching js now I’m with the loops and came across this example, I have no idea how the code outputs 55 can someone please break it down in simple English.

To me I counted output to be 11

let count =1;
let total =0;

while (count <= 10){

total = total + count;
count = count + 1;

}

document.write(total);

Answer 1

This is now cristal clear 👌🏿

Answer 2

You are a star thank you very much

Answer 3

👋👋
This code can be written shorter:

//count is 1
let count = 1;
//the total is 0
let total = 0;
//loop finishes when count reaches 10
while(count <= 10) {
    //nests count value in total, and adds them
    total += count;
    //increase count value one by one
    count++;
}
//prints total (the sum of printed counts
document.write(total);
//1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10
/*
output:
55
*/

You increase count value one by one, and add it to total variable. So this happens when you write total += count:

total = 0; now total is 0
Loop starts
total = 1 + 0 = 1; now total is 1
total = 2 + 1 = 3; now total is 3
total = 3 + 3 = 6; now total is 6
total = 4 + 6 = 10; now total is 10
total = 5 + 10 = 15; now total is 15
total = 6 + 15 = 21; now total is 21
total = 7 + 21 = 28; now total is 28
total = 8 + 28 = 36; now total is 36
total = 9 + 36 = 45; now total is 45
total = 10 + 45 = ; now total is 55
Loop finished
Printing total = printing 55

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Answer 4

Happy coding 👋

Answer 5

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