plz help!sth wrong!

[Johny_GA]

Hi,

i'm totally new to c programming and i have just began writing code.What i want to make is a program that adds (and another one that subtracts) 2 numbers, =no matter how big they are= and i just can't do it.Can someone help?Below is the code that i wrote with some help:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void main()
{
	int *a,*b,*c;
	char buf[10000];
	char buf2[10000];
	int n, i;

	printf("\nGive a number: ");
	scanf("&#37;s",buf);
	n= strlen(buf);

	printf("\n Number: %s \n",buf);
	printf("Length of the number: %d \n ",n);
	a=(int*)malloc(n*sizeof(int));
	*a=atoi(buf);

/*for (i=0;i<n;i++){
					a[i]=buf[n-i-1]-'0';
					}*/

	printf("\nGive a number: ");
	scanf("%s",buf2);
	n= strlen(buf2);
	printf("\n Number: %s \n",buf2);
	printf("Length of the number: %d \n ",n);
	b=(int *) malloc(n*sizeof(int));
	*b=atoi(buf2);
/*for (i=0;i<n;i++){
				b[i]=buf2[n-i-1]-'0';
				}*/


	c=(int *) malloc(n*sizeof(int));
	*c= *a-*b;

	printf("\n First Number : %d \n",*a);
	printf("\n Second Number : %d \n",*b);

	printf("\n Result : %d \n",*c);

}

Thanx in advance!

[robatino]

Arbitrary precision arithmetic in general is hard. For adding two integers, it's relatively simple, if you don't need the fastest possible implementation. You can do it the same way as by hand - you add one pair of digits at a time, from right to left, keeping track of the carry. For efficiency you should rely on existing libraries, such as GMP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bignum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Mul...cision_Library

Edit: Also, it's "int main(void)" and not "void main()", and you don't need to cast malloc().

http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284376

http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284351

[ssharish2005]

You cant read not more than 32,767 or in other words u cant store not more than 32,767 on an integer datatye. There are algorithms to add a very long number.

Robatina has a good and a simple one. You could try that. And i also noticed that why do u want it to be int * to store th return value of atoi. You could just store them on a int.

And do not use scannf to read a string. Cos it dosn't recoganise the words after the white space. Which you will find a problem in the future.

ssharish2005

[Johny_GA]

And do not use scannf to read a string. Cos it dosn't recoganise the words after the white space. Which you will find a problem in the future.

ssharish2005

What should i use instead of scanf?thanks for the correction

[Happy_Reaper]

What should i use instead of scanf?

http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284385