Thread: smallest integer program, help please

This program is supposed to give you back the smallest integer. See you put in a number, and that will specify how many you will be allowed to put in before the program decides the smallest. My program compiles and runs, but it does not give me the right value back all the time. Try it and help, please. thanks

This isn't giving me the right return, it gives me wierd outputs, it doesn't give me the smallest, I think my counter may be wrong
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Code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
 int firstValue=0, currentNumber, counter=0, smallestNumber;

 printf("Please enter a positive  integer value.  the first value you enter is the number of integers you will be allowed to enter further.\n");
 
 scanf("%d", &firstValue);
 
 while ( counter <= firstValue ) 
 {
    printf( "Enter integer: " );

 
    scanf( "%d", &currentNumber );
    smallestNumber = firstValue;
 
    if ( smallestNumber > currentNumber )
       smallestNumber = currentNumber;
    counter= counter + 1;
 }

 /*termination phase*/
 printf( "The lowest integer value you put in is %d/n", smallestNumber );
 return 0;
}

tagged by Salem

my other program is jacked up too. I am supposed to do a factorial of number the user puts in and it should print out like this, for example if you use 4!:
1 1
2 2
3 6
4 24
(that is like a tabular format).
Anyone who can help a brother out, thanks, this is my first week of programming learning for real, ever. This is rough but I think I can get good at. If it is not appropriate to ask for help in this manner, then chew me out. PEACE! later, thanks for your time too. But the one I posted above, I know it has to be such a small glitch in my arrangement.
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>

int main()
{
int answer, factorial, counter=0;

printf( "please put in the number, and you get the factorial table.\n");

scanf( "%d", &factorial );

if ( factorial==0 )
printf( "1 1");

if ( factorial ==1 )
printf( "1 1");

for ( counter =1 ;counter=factorial; counter++ )
{
answer = counter*factorial; }

printf( "%d", counter );
return 0;
}

Code:

  while ( counter <= firstValue ) 
 {
    printf( "Enter integer: " );

 
    scanf( "%d", ¤tNumber );
    smallestNumber = firstValue;

It looks like this section of code will not do what you wish it to do.
No matter what number your user puts in, firstValue will always be the smallest number. It appears your current number will never be evaluated.

Try messing with this part.

Code:

  for ( counter =1 ;counter=factorial; counter++ )
{
answer = counter*factorial; }

printf( "%d", counter );
return 0;

It appears from this code, the only thing your project is going to print out is the counter, if it ever gets there. Look at your for loop, correct it, then figure out a way to print the data out.

HINT: you need to print out each iteration and it would probably be a good thing to print your answer.

ok, i will try to look at those things, thanks.
What does "tagged" mean at the bottom of my first post, Salem did it. And oh yeah, Salem, SALAM! Peace

Originally posted by STUDENT2
ok, i will try to look at those things, thanks.
What does "tagged" mean at the bottom of my first post, Salem did it. And oh yeah, Salem, SALAM! Peace

I used tags here to quote you. If you click his link up there, there is a brief page on it. All it means, is that he tagged your code so it is all properly indented. Compare your first post with the second, and note the difference in the look of the code. Just easier to read, is all...

cool, now can someone help me with my homework just as quick?
I THINK NOT!

salem!
your name means "peace" in some languages. It's also the name of a local methodist church, and also the name of a brand of cigarettes(which I despise)

yes its my first week, well, I can learn by example too. But I guess I will follow my own experiences. Yeah, you guys know what is best for me, I won't learn this way. But good grades, yeah, I like them.