I can't seem to figure this out, though it should be pretty simple. Here are my instructions: Compound interest Compound.cpp Write a program that calculates compound interest. The program should ask the user for the starting dollar amount and the daily increase (as a percentage), and the number of days. A loop should then be used to display the day, the amount of interest earned on that day and the account balance on that day. The program should also display the total interest earned. Output should be as follow Initial amount in dollars? 100 Interest rate in percentage? 10 Number of days? 3 Day Earned interest Balance ----------------------------------------------- 1 $10 $110.00 2 $11 $121.00 3 $12.10 $133.10 Total Interest earned: $33.10 Validation: Dollar amount should be between 10 and 10000 Interest rate should be between 1 and 22 Number of days should be between 2 and 30 The output should be formatted and aligned according to the above. Here is my code: Code: #include <cstdio> #include <math.h> #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main () { double dollars, amount, interest, power, formularate; int days, rate; bool notValid; int a=1; do{ notValid=false; //Validation for amount cout << "\nPlease enter dollar starting amount?" ; cin >> dollars; if (dollars <10 || dollars >10000) { cout << "\nYou have entered invalid data"; notValid=true; } } while (notValid); do{ notValid=false; //Validation for rate cout << "\nWhat is the daily increase (as a percentage)?" ; cin >> rate; if (rate <1 || rate >22) { cout << "\nYou have entered invalid data"; notValid=true; } } while (notValid); do{ notValid=false; //Validation for days cout << "\nEnter the number of days:" ; cin >> days; if (days<2 || days >30) { cout << "\nYou have entered invalid data"; notValid=true; } } while (notValid); { cout << "\n\nDay Earned Interest Balance"; cout << "\n-----------------------------------\n"; for(a==1; a <= days; ) //Loop for display { formularate=(rate/100); amount=dollars*pow(1+(formularate/365),(a)); interest=amount-dollars; cout << a; cout << " "; cout << interest; cout << " "; cout << amount; cout << " "; cout <<"\n\n"; a++; //Increments a } system("pause"); } } Why is my interest 0?
When you have myteries like that print out some values to see what is going on. I did that and found (and noted) a couple of things that should get you going. Code: { cout << "\n\nDay Earned Interest Balance"; cout << "\n-----------------------------------\n"; /* Three things here: 1) You have two conditionals. 2) And you can increment a here! That IS one of the advantages of a for() for(a==1; a <= days; ) / * Loop for display */ for(a = 1; a <= days; a++) /* Loop for display */ { /* 3) rate is declared as int. You must declare or cast to a double. formularate = (rate / 100); I just cast it below */ formularate = ( (double)rate / 100); amount = dollars * pow(1 + (formularate / 365), (a) ); interest=amount-dollars; cout << a; cout << " "; cout << interest; cout << " "; cout << amount; cout << " "; cout <<" dollars= "; cout << dollars; cout <<" days= "; cout << days; cout <<" rate= "; cout << rate; cout <<" formularate= "; cout << formularate; cout <<"\n\n"; /* a++; Increments a (now done above in for() */ } Output: Code: D:\C\Cprogforum\veronicak> compound.exe Please enter dollar starting amount?1000 What is the daily increase (as a percentage)?10 Enter the number of days:10 Day Earned Interest Balance ----------------------------------- 1 0.273973 1000.27 dollars= 1000 days= 10 rate= 10 formularate= 0.1 2 0.54802 1000.55 dollars= 1000 days= 10 rate= 10 formularate= 0.1 3 0.822143 1000.82 dollars= 1000 days= 10 rate= 10 formularate= 0.1 4 1.09634 1001.1 dollars= 1000 days= 10 rate= 10 formularate= 0.1 5 1.37061 1001.37 dollars= 1000 days= 10 rate= 10 formularate= 0.1 6 1.64496 1001.64 dollars= 1000 days= 10 rate= 10 formularate= 0.1 7 1.91939 1001.92 dollars= 1000 days= 10 rate= 10 formularate= 0.1 8 2.19388 1002.19 dollars= 1000 days= 10 rate= 10 formularate= 0.1 9 2.46846 1002.47 dollars= 1000 days= 10 rate= 10 formularate= 0.1 10 2.74311 1002.74 dollars= 1000 days= 10 rate= 10 formularate= 0.1 From the additional values being printed I could see that rate was right but formularate was not , so that quickly became my focus. Have fun, Howard; ps: I don't know cpp , how do you format the numbers for cout << ?
Thanks Howard! You have helped a lot. And I don't really know C++ either! That's why my formatting is all weird.
I see there are many C++ tutorials at the top of this forum listing. I tried one and found the following which should help you tidy up the output: Code: /* formout.cpp http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/cppcen.html 33. This program performs formated output two different ways. Please note the width() and setw() MODIFIERS are only effective on the next item output to the stream. The second next item will not be influenced. my compiling notes: g++ -Wall -W -pedantic formout1.cpp -o formout1.exe ls -l -rw---a- 704 7 Sep 17 12:29:54 formout1.cpp -rwx--a- 424529 7 Sep 17 12:39:32 formout1.exe 1/2 meg ?! geez */ using namespace std; #include <iostream> #include <iomanip> /* looks like this is needed for setw() */ int main () { int i; cout << "A list of numbers:" << endl; for (i = 1; i <= 1024; i *= 2) { cout.width (7); cout << i << endl; } cout << "A table of numbers:" << endl; for (i = 0; i <= 4; i++) { cout << setw(3) << i << setw(5) << i * i * i << endl; } /*** (HL) I modified that loop and found we can do this: ***/ cout << "Mixed formatted numbers and text:" << endl; for (i = 0; i <= 4; i++) { cout << "i= " << setw(3) << i << setw(20) << "i * i * i= " << setw(5) << i * i * i << endl; } return 0; } And that output is: Code: D:\CPP\formatted_output> formout1.exe A list of numbers: 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024 A table of numbers: 0 0 1 1 2 8 3 27 4 64 Mixed formatted numbers and text: i= 0 i * i * i= 0 i= 1 i * i * i= 1 i= 2 i * i * i= 8 i= 3 i * i * i= 27 i= 4 i * i * i= 64 Well that's a start. . I suppose there are many more formatting options to be learned. New thing for the day!... ++Howard;
