Help with a fractions program

[poly]

Hey guys, Im pretty new to turing and new to these boards and I am in need of help for a program that we wrote in class the other day. The teacher handed us a few problems and told us to write them up, we didnt have to, but they were extra practice. Anywho I got stumped on this one question. What we need to do is write a program (in turing of coarse) that will add 2 fractions that the user inputs and than outputs the answer. well that was easy, heres my code for it

code:

% All the program variables var fTop, fBottom, sTop, sBottom : int % Now getting the 2 fractions from user put "Enter the first fraction (enter Numerator, space, enter denominator) " .. get fTop, fBottom put "Enter the second fraction (enter Numerator, space, enter denominator) " .. get sTop, sBottom % Spacer put "" % This will show the user their 2 fractions with a '+' between the 2 put fTop, "/", fBottom, " + ", sTop, "/", sBottom % This will add the 2 fractions and output answer put "= ", (fTop * sBottom) + (sTop * fBottom), "/", (fBottom * sBottom)

so say the user inputs 3/4 and 5/12 it would look like...
3/4 + 5/12 = 56/48

Now how would I write something to round the fraction? would i use IF statement... could somebody (if you have some free time) pelase write me what I would put for the program to round the fraction if the fraction could be rounded

[Blade]

no, you would use round(), it rounds up no matter what the decimal is, but if you want to round down... then you use floor()
ex:

code:

put round(24+15) put floor(24+15)

but in this case you dont need to round an addition question, but thats how you would use it

[poly]

Oh ok well thats what I thought I had to do, but my teacher said that it wouldnt be correct.. So i was like "wtf is he talkin about"... thanks for the reply

[Tony]

its kind of hard to round fractions. What you do is you simplify them.

first of all, if the top number if larget then bottom number, you know there's a 1 in front of the fraction, so you can take that much of.

After that, you should run a forloop from 2 to the top number and see if both top and bottom number can be divided by the same counter.

such as:

code:

for i:2..numTop if numTop mod i = 0 and numBottom mod i = 0 then numTop := numTop / i numBottom := numBottom /i end if end for

basically you're looking for common diviser and if one is found, you simplify your fraction. (There was a problem like that on CCC2002)

[Blade]

i think i misunderstood the question... i thought he wanted to round the top number... so if he got 2.5/4 then he wanted it as 2/4(1/2) or 3/4 or something like that... you see what i mean?

[poly]

just what Im looking for Tony, thanks. I had it written similiar to what you have, except for i didnt have the 2.. numftop, thanks guys