Invalid Operands

Hi, I'm very new to programming, this being my second program. I've been working on this and I still can't seem to get this last section to work. I'm supposed to use a programmer defined function to solve for the area of the rectangle for an integral but I cant get past the line where it has the equation. The message it says is "invalid operands of types `double ()(double)' and `double ()(double)' to binary `operator*'. I looked it up online and couldnt find anything to really tell me what was wrong other than it's typically something simple to fix which makes me feel programming retarded lol. Any help will be appreciated!!

Here is the part of my program that keeps messing up.\

double y;
double rect_area;
double total_area;
double area (double low_x, double high_x, double delta_x);
{

y = ((cos * cos) (low_x)) + ((cos * cos)(low_x * low_x));
rect_area = (y * delta_x);

printf("rectangle area is: %lf", y);

system("pause");

Hmm. Looks like you are using a function-name (cos) as a variable, and you haven't declared it either.

What is the formula you are actually trying to apply?

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Mats

y = cos^2 (x) + cos^2 (x^2)

I thought if you included the math.h file it would recognize cos and sin as well as everything else. I used a square root function before and it worked fine. I changed around my area function and that just made my computer angry :(

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Originally Posted by chocobo59

y = cos^2 (x) + cos^2 (x^2)

I thought if you included the math.h file it would recognize cos and sin as well as everything else. I used a square root function before and it worked fine. I changed around my area function and that just made my computer angry :(

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You have to CALL the function: cos(x). The compiler doesn't psychically know that you want to apply cos to the variable x.

And just to clarify, cos^2(x) should be written as cos(x) * cox(x).

Since cos itself is a fairly expensive[1] operation, it may be better to use a temporary variable, as it's not guaranteed that the compiler optimizes two calls to cos with the same value:

Code:

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  cos_x = cos(x);
  result = cos_x * cos_x;

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Mats

Thank you!! That helped me get past the stupid invalid operands issue. And also for the correction of my math equation. I can't seem to get the math equations to use my user inputed values though. To the tutorials! :)

Thanks again!

What are the input values? Is it by any chance that you are using degrees, when the functions require radians?

Divide by 180, multiply by pi to get radians from degrees.

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Mats