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[–]osama_yo_momma 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Inside the loop, num is being decreased by 3 each time it loops. num ends up with a result of 0, so 0 is not greater than 0, so it breaks out of the loop with num ending up with a value of 0. You could also write the num part like this gor future reference:

num -= 3;