Loop help

[Neotriz]

Allright pretty much i just need help on loop


Basically, Im supposed to make a program that involves two games: Arithmetic and Factorization. The latter is what I'm having trouble with

Here's what I've written.

This is the factorization function, which it will return a value in seconds to main (dont worry about this part)

double factorGAME (int max, int quantity) {
      

       int correct, a, b, i, guesses=1, answer, points;
       int wrong_ans=0;
        //This is will start the time
       double start = time(0);
       
       
       
       for (i=1; i <= quantity; i++){
             //Two random numbers will be set the question
             int x = rand()%max+1;
             int y = rand()%max+1;
             correct = x*y;       
             
          
             printf("Please factor %d\n", correct);
             scanf("%d %d", &a, &b);
             answer = a*b;
             
             
             
             if (answer == correct){
                
                if (a == x && b == y);
                else if (a == y && b == x);
                
                else
                
                      
                    printf("Sorry, that is not the factorization we are looking for\nPlease try again.\n");
                    
                
             }
             //when the user types the wrong answer, this will display
             else{
                 printf("Sorry, %d x %d does NOT equal %d\n", a, b, correct);
                 printf("Please try again\n");
                 guesses+=1;
                 //it adds 5 seconds penalty
                 wrong_ans= wrong_ans + 5;
                 //the loop will set the program to repeat itself until the right answer is given
                 while (answer != correct) {
                       scanf("%d %d", &a, &b);
                       answer = a*b;
                       
                       if (answer == correct);
                       else
                           {
                           printf("Sorry, %d x %d does NOT equal %d\n", a, b, correct);
                           printf("Please try again\n");
                           guesses+=1;
                       }
                 }
             }
             printf("Correct, great job!\n");
             printf("You got the factorization in %d guesses\n", guesses);
      } 
      // Ends the timer for factorization game
      double end = time(0);

      double time_spent = end + wrong_ans - start;
      double performance;
      
      performance = time_spent / quantity;
      
      return performance;
       
}

The prob is that when a number, like 24 for instance, it causes prob.
there are multiple factors that sometime doesnt match up the user's answer to the comp

I want the output to write something like:


...

Please Factor 124
4 31
Sorry, that is not the factorization we are looking for.
Please try again
2 62
Correct, great job!

Any solutions?

[Elysia]

Sounds like a basic logic problem. Start by writing pseudo code or a flowchart.

[Adak]

Allright pretty much i just need help on loop


Basically, Im supposed to make a program that involves two games: Arithmetic and Factorization. The latter is what I'm having trouble with

Here's what I've written.

This is the factorization function, which it will return a value in seconds to main (dont worry about this part)

double factorGAME (int max, int quantity) {
      

       int correct, a, b, i, guesses=1, answer, points;
       int wrong_ans=0;
        //This is will start the time
       double start = time(0);
       
       
       
       for (i=1; i <= quantity; i++){
             //Two random numbers will be set the question
             int x = rand()%max+1;
             int y = rand()%max+1;
             correct = x*y;     
             wrong = 1;  
             
           while(wrong) {          
             printf("Please factor %d\n", correctly);
             scanf("%d %d", &a, &b);
             answer = a*b;
             
             
             
             if (answer == correct){
               if (a == x || b == x) {
                  printf("\n Good Job! You are correct! ");
                  printf("You got the factorization in %d guesses\n", guesses);
                  wrong = 0;
                  continue;

               }         
               else                       
                  printf("Sorry, that is not the factorization we are looking for\nPlease try again.\n");   
             }
             if(answer != correct) {
               //when the user types the wrong answer, this will display
               printf("Sorry, %d x %d does NOT equal %d\n", a, b, correct);
               printf("Please try again\n");
               guesses+=1;
               //it adds 5 seconds penalty
               wrong_ans= wrong_ans + 5;
               //the loop will set the program to repeat itself until the right answer is given
            }
             
         } //end of while loop
          if (wrong == 0)
               break;   //break out of the for loop if guess was correct
      } //end of for loop 
      // Ends the timer for factorization game
      double end = time(0);

      double time_spent = end + wrong_ans - start;
      double performance;
      
      performance = time_spent / quantity;
      
      return performance;
       
}

The prob is that when a number, like 24 for instance, it causes prob.
there are multiple factors that sometime doesnt match up the user's answer to the comp

I want the output to write something like:


...


Any solutions?

Something like the above is what you want. Remember that if the two numbers given by the user are factors of the correct number, then if only one of those factors is a correct guess, the other factor MUST BE correct. (otherwise the answer couldn't be correct)


I haven't run the above, so consider it prototype or idea code,not ready to run in your program, code.