Thread: school project help

for my shcool project, i am supposed to write a console application program where you can enter a fraction in the form of n/d (numberator/denominator). then when you enter that, the program is supposed to divide the numerator by the denominator. then the prog should give you the quotient, but if it is a repeating decimal (i would just assume that anything above 8 decimal places is repeating) the program is supposed to show the repeating quotient as follows. lets say you typed in one third which is a repeating .3
it should display it as .(3)

1/3 [ENTER]
.(3)

how do you get the string input in the beginning to recognize n/d as two integers and then how do you get it to display a repeating decimal like .(3) I'm not sure how to get it to display it with the decimal point and then the parenthesis

now im tired from typing such a long thread. i feel like a noob

I feel like I recognize this question from another post somewhere on these boards.....possibly same class?

Anyway, just to clarify:
http://cboard.cprogramming.com/annou...ouncementid=51
See #9

repeating decimals wouldn't be hard and you could prove it not just out 8 decimals. If your remainder after division stays the same twice in a row it is repeating
1/3

10/3 = 3 remainder 1 carry decimal 10 10/3 remainder 1

what about 1/ 17 do you mean the double 8 in it

Code:

0.058823529

the numbers are the same but 150/17 then the next 8 is 140/17 different remainers

oh whoops I forgot about more than one digit! Oh well. I forgot about fractions like 12344/9999 I was thinking like 2/9