I have problems choosing the initialisation and generally understanding the purpose of this program:
I tried following:
void main() {
int a, b, i = 0;
printf("a\n");
scanf("%i",&a);
printf("b\n");
scanf("%i\n",&b);
}
But what loop to choose?
As you perform the step z = z - b
before the check z < 0
a do
-while
loop would map most naturally:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
int a;
int b;
if(scanf("%d%d", &a, &b) != 2) {
printf("scanf() failed\n");
return 1;
}
if(b == 0) {
printf("b cannot be 0\n");
return 0;
}
int i = 0;
int z = a;
do {
z -= b;
i++;
} while(z >= 0);
int E = i - 1;
int R = z + b;
printf("E = %d, R = %d\n", E, R);
}
As @Fe2O3 points out the E and R assignments undos the last step, so I would rework into a for
-loop that tests if we need to take the next step before doing it. This would be a different flow chart though.
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
int a;
int b;
if(scanf("%d%d", &a, &b) != 2) {
printf("scanf() failed\n");
return 1;
}
if(!b) {
printf("b cannot be 0\n");
return 0;
}
size_t i = 0;
for(; a - b >= 0; a -= b, i++);
printf("E = %d, R = %d\n", i, a);
}
Or simply realizing what the algorithm does and implement it directly:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
int a;
int b;
if(scanf("%d%d", &a, &b) != 2) {
printf("scanf() failed\n");
return 1;
}
if(!b) {
printf("b cannot be 0\n");
return 0;
}
printf("%d %d\n", a/b, a%b );
}