Schools in and I could use some help. I have never touched C before so forgive me if I have done something stupidly wrong.
Basically its a math error that I cant seem to figure out. I know something is wrong with the count variable. It jumps up to 50 for some reason I am unaware of. Can someone help me out here, I am pretty new to C so I assume I just declared something wrong perhaps? Or perhaps its just the compiler? I am useing VS2005
/*Displays a-z on the left hand side, and a running average of the letters to the right. When the left
hand letter reaches B it will display the average as a number instead of a letter.*/
#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
int main (void)
{
char letter = 'a';
char average = 'a';
char count = '2';
while(letter<='z')
{
if(letter=='b')
{
printf("%c %d\n",letter++, average);
}
else
{
printf("%c %c\n",letter++, average);
}
//Calculates the running average by adding the last average and current letter, then dividing all by count
average= (average + letter)/count;
count+=1;
}//ends while
printf("Press any key to continue%a\n");
_getch();
return 0;
}
The final output should look like this:
a a
b 97
c b
d b
e c
f c
g d
etc...
instead i get:
a a
b 3
c
d
e
f
etc...