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I only need help in starting this assignment. I need to create a text field and a submit button in HTML. I need to receive fourteen numbers one at a time and store them in a variable so that later I can do some calculations with those numbers. What I was thinking is that I could put the numbers into an array as the numbers are being given.

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Do you know how to use the DOM? That is, how to use functions like document.getElementById to find elements?

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What I was thinking is that I could put the numbers into an array as the numbers are being given.

That's a good idea. You can easily push new elements into an array using the Array.push method. An example of this would be:

var myArray = [];
for (var i = 0; i < 10; ++i) {
    myArray.push(Math.random());
}

Now you have 10 random numbers in the array, indexed 0 through 9.

Other useful methods to consider when dealing with user supplied numbers:

• parseInt turns strings into actual numbers. Use this on user supplied input if you want to use the numbers in calculations.
  
  
• parseFloat does the same thing as parseInt, except it can handle fractions, which parseInt cant.
  
  
• isNaN makes sure that the numbers the parse functions return are actually numbers. If the user input can't be parsed into numbers, the parse functions will return a NaN instead of a number, and this function checks for that. I strongly recommend using this function any time you parse a string into a number. Can save you a lot of debugging later on.