Need a bit of help please....

Man. I got my second assignment for programming and it's really frustrating me to no end. I've tried everything I can think of. The assignment should be pretty simple, so I'm kind of embarrassed about posting this, but it's my first time to even look at C coding so I have to start somewhere I guess. Anyway, the assignment is to write a program to take two numbers as input and display their sum, their difference, their product, and their quotient. I am having a problem with decimals and all that though. Here is the code I have so far:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>

int main(void) {
  int first, second;

  printf("Enter two numbers> ");
  scanf("%d %d", &first, &second);
  printf("The two numbers are: %d and %d\n", first, second); 
  printf("Their sum is %.2f\n", first+second);
  printf("Their difference is %.2f\n", first-second);
  printf("Their product is %.2f\n", first*second);
  printf("Their quotient is %.2f\n", first/second);
  getch();
}

I know the code is probably horrible, but it's the best I could come up with and it's still not working. I need the input to be able to accept decimals to the hundredths and also the output to display them in the same format.

If there is something obvious that I'm doing wrong, could you please let me know? I'm sure it's something that I overlooked, but it's getting extremely frustrating. Thank you for any help.

The data type int can only hold whole numbers (integers). You need to use float or double to get what you're looking for.

Ok. I've done some more reading in my book and I think I understand it, but it's still not working. I don't want it done for me by any means...just a point in the right direction. Here is what I have now:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>

int main(void) {
  double first, second;

  printf("Enter two numbers> ");
  scanf("%.2f %.2f", &first, &second);
  printf("The two numbers are: %.2f  %.2f\n", first, second); 
  printf("Their sum is %.2f\n", first+second);
  printf("Their difference is %.2f\n", first-second);
  printf("Their product is %.2f\n", first*second);
  printf("Their quotient is %.2f\n", first/second);
  getch();
}

Thanks again.

%lf is the conversion specifier for doubles.

Originally Posted by TheflY

Ok. I've done some more reading in my book and I think I understand it, but it's still not working.

Don't just say "it doesn't work". Tell us what it:
a) does, that it should.
b) doesn't do that it should.
c) does that it shouldn't.

Pick one or more of the above when you're explaining your problem. It also helps if you include errors and warnings you get. For example, when I compile your code with warnings turned on, as you should, I get this:

la.c: In function `main':
la.c:7: warning: unknown conversion type character `.' in format
la.c:7: warning: unknown conversion type character `.' in format
la.c:7: warning: too many arguments for format
la.c:14: warning: control reaches end of non-void function

From there, you go find line 7 and see what it's complaining about. This tells us it doesn't like your scanf line. So we fix that with something like:

Code:

scanf("%lf %lf", &foo, &bar);

And of course, we add the needed return statement to our main function. (And we add an "ar" on your getch function, and get rid of your unneeded conio.h line!)

Quzah.

Thank you so much! You were a ton of help and I really appreciate it. The finished product:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>

int main(void) {
  double first, second;

  printf("Enter two numbers separated by a space> ");
  scanf("%lf %lf", &first, &second);
  printf("The two numbers are: %.2f and %.2f\n", first, second); 
  printf("Their sum is %.2f\n", first+second);
  printf("Their difference is %.2f\n", first-second);
  printf("Their product is %.2f\n", first*second);
  printf("Their quotient is %.2f\n", first/second);
  getch();
}