C: converting Farenheit to Celsius

Question

int main (void)
{
    int fahrenheit; // fahrenheit stands for fahrenheit
    double c; // c stands for celsius

    printf(\"Enter your fahrenheit, we\'ll covnvert          


        

Answer 1

The scanf call uses the wrong format string. You are reading an int so you need it to be:

scanf("%d", &fahrenheit);

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The expression 5/9 is evaluated using integer division. In fact the compiler can work it out at compile time. That expression evaluates to 0.

You need to perform floating point division. For instance:

5.0/9

Or:

5/9.0

Or

5.0/9.0

You just need at least one operand to be a floating point value.

Putting this into your expression, you can write:

c = 5.0/9.0 * (fahrenheit - 32);

and obtain the answer that you expect.

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Your printf statement is wrong too. You should enable warnings and let the compiler tell you that. You meant to write:

printf("Here is your %f in celsius!.\n", c);