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March 8, 2018 23:34
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A fun little shortcut I created to reduce fractions... until I found the Math>Frac function on my TI-84.
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#include<iostream> | |
#include<cmath> | |
using namespace std; | |
bool is_integer(float k) | |
{ | |
return std::floor(k) == k; | |
} | |
int main() | |
{ | |
cout << "Reduce a fraction!" << endl; | |
cout << "Enter the numerator:"; | |
double number1 = 0; | |
cin >> number1; | |
cout << "Enter the denominator:"; | |
double number2 = 0; | |
cin >> number2; | |
cout << "------------------------------------" << endl; | |
double number1HighestFactor = number1 / 2; | |
double number2HighestFactor = number2 / 2; | |
double highestFactor = (number1HighestFactor > number2HighestFactor) ? number1HighestFactor : number2HighestFactor; | |
int factorOfNumber1 = 0, factorOfNumber2 = 0; | |
for (int i = 1; i < (highestFactor + 1); i++) | |
{ | |
// We only want to print out common factors | |
if (is_integer(number1/i) && is_integer(number2/i)) | |
{ | |
factorOfNumber1 = number1 / i; | |
factorOfNumber2 = number2 / i; | |
cout << "Common factor of " << i << ": " << "(" << number1 << ")" << factorOfNumber1 << " (" << number2 << ")" << factorOfNumber2 << endl; | |
} | |
} | |
cout << "------------------------------------" << endl; | |
cout << "The simplest form for " << number1 << "/" << number2 << " is " << factorOfNumber1 << "/" << factorOfNumber2 << endl; | |
cout << endl; | |
system("pause"); | |
return 0; | |
} |
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