For my Engineering Class I have to write a program that will take in an nth degree polynomial. The degree will always be positive and an integer. Then I have to use Simpson's Rule and the Rectangular rule to compare the numerical integration results, well... on to the point. I am having trouble with the entering of the polynomial. I don't know if I should have the subfunction be type void or not, because I am going to have most of my calculations done in subfunctions. Also I am unsure whether or not to have the user input the polynomial coefficients as a string or a character array. Any help or advice would be appreciated.
When I haveCode:#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> void polynomial(char *); main() { } void polynomial(char *ptr) { int degree; printf("\nEnter the degree of the polynomial you wish to integrate."); scanf("%d", °ree); ptr=(char *)malloc((degree+1) * sizeof(char)); if(ptr= NULL) { puts("Memory Allocation Failed."); } }the degree+1 is for the entire length of the polynomial, for instance if you had a 2nd degree polynomial you would have 3 terms, x^2 + x + #.Code:ptr=(char *)malloc((degree+1) * sizeof(char));
