my output is printing multiple times

Question

class Prime
{
  public static void main (String[]args)
  {
    int n = 17;
     if (n <= 1)
      {
  System.out.println (" not a prime number");
      }

    for (int i = 2; i <= n / 2; i++)
      {
  if (n % i == 0)
    {
      System.out.println ("not a prime number");
    }
  else
    {
      System.out.println ("prime number");
    }
      }
  }

}

Answer 1

class Prime
{
    public static void main (String[]args)
    {
         int n = 16;
         if (n <= 1){
             System.out.println (" not a prime number");
             System.exit(0);  // If n is less than or equal to 1 then print not a prime number and exit the program

             // System.exit(0) function terminates the program
         }

        for (int i = 2; i <= n / 2; i++){
      
            if (n % i == 0)
             {
                System.out.println ("not a prime number");
                System.exit(0);// If n is divisible by i then print not a prime number and exit the program

             }
        }

        // After completing the loop if n is prime number then if condition in for loop will never run therefore we print

        n is prime number
        System.out.println("prime number");
  }

}

Comments

this is because you have typed the input
 it so many times are you alert on what are you doing

Answer 2

This is, because in your for loop you print something every single time you check n % i.

Instead, you should quit (return) when you find that n % i == 0 and only print that the number is a prime after your for loop is finished (meaning you didn't find any divider).