Gday,
Just a quick question for anyone who knows.
How do u simplify fractions. For example. If the output is 40/ 160 how do i get the compiler to print out 1/4???
Thanx
Gday,
Just a quick question for anyone who knows.
How do u simplify fractions. For example. If the output is 40/ 160 how do i get the compiler to print out 1/4???
Thanx
Since this smells of a homework problem, I'm going to put your mind back to work.
What common arithmetic operator can be used to determine if two values are multiples of one another? (Think zero remainder.)
Okay? Now, how could you create a loop to run through the possibilities until you've reduced both the numerator and denominator to their lowest values?
Hint: create a FOR loop that initializes the counter to the value of the numerator and decrement, testing each successive value as a potential common multiple of both the numerator and denominator. Note that you will want to stop your loop before you reach '0' i.e. x > 0, lest you blow up the program!
(The loop is trivial in that it requires only about five lines of code. I leave it to you to refine it to reduce execution time. That is, suppose your example were 40000/160000?)
Good luck!
-Skipper
"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail." Abraham Maslow
Wouldn't there be a quick way of perfoming a division and then converting the result to a fraction? Because 1/4 and 40/160 both result in 0.25.How do u simplify fractions. For example. If the output is 40/ 160 how do i get the compiler to print out 1/4???
Just write a gcd algorithm and then divide the numerator
and denomerator by it.