C#•8mo ago

❔ Coin sorting issue

Hey guys, I'm building a little test app that gives you the smallest amount of coins that you can use to make a specific value. Here is the program running, and here is my code I'm having an issue, where when it gets to a certain number, it's breaking. Do I need to use Ceiling or Floor in the code? I just find it weird as I swear I built this exact same program with roughly the same code in Uni and it worked? Every if/else if statement is the same as these, and then it prints out the coins, but due to the weird issue, it never gets to 0. I guess I could add an if statement to check if it is less than 0.01 Thank you

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Murten•8mo ago

I suggest looking into the modulus operator. And you are not showing all the code so I can't tell why your current implementation is failing. $code

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jadders•8mo ago

namespace Coin_Sorter
{
    internal class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Please input an amount of change");
            float amountOfChange = float.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
            int coinCount = 0;

            while (amountOfChange > 0) 
            {
                if (amountOfChange > 5)
                {
                    amountOfChange -= 5;
                    coinCount++;
                    Console.WriteLine("taken 5");
                    Console.WriteLine(amountOfChange);
                }
                else if(amountOfChange > 2) 
                {
                    amountOfChange -= 2;
                    coinCount++;
                    Console.WriteLine("taken 2");
                    Console.WriteLine(amountOfChange);
                }
                else if(amountOfChange > 1)
                {
                    amountOfChange -= 1;
                    coinCount++;
                    Console.WriteLine("taken 1");
                    Console.WriteLine(amountOfChange);
                }
                else if (amountOfChange > 0.50f)
                {
                    amountOfChange -= 0.50f;
                    coinCount++;
                    Console.WriteLine("taken 0.50");
                    Console.WriteLine(amountOfChange);
                }
                else if (amountOfChange > 0.20f)
                {
                    amountOfChange -= 0.20f;
                    coinCount++;
                    Console.WriteLine("taken 0.20");
                    Console.WriteLine(amountOfChange);
                }

namespace Coin_Sorter
{
    internal class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Please input an amount of change");
            float amountOfChange = float.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
            int coinCount = 0;

            while (amountOfChange > 0) 
            {
                if (amountOfChange > 5)
                {
                    amountOfChange -= 5;
                    coinCount++;
                    Console.WriteLine("taken 5");
                    Console.WriteLine(amountOfChange);
                }
                else if(amountOfChange > 2) 
                {
                    amountOfChange -= 2;
                    coinCount++;
                    Console.WriteLine("taken 2");
                    Console.WriteLine(amountOfChange);
                }
                else if(amountOfChange > 1)
                {
                    amountOfChange -= 1;
                    coinCount++;
                    Console.WriteLine("taken 1");
                    Console.WriteLine(amountOfChange);
                }
                else if (amountOfChange > 0.50f)
                {
                    amountOfChange -= 0.50f;
                    coinCount++;
                    Console.WriteLine("taken 0.50");
                    Console.WriteLine(amountOfChange);
                }
                else if (amountOfChange > 0.20f)
                {
                    amountOfChange -= 0.20f;
                    coinCount++;
                    Console.WriteLine("taken 0.20");
                    Console.WriteLine(amountOfChange);
                }

                else if (amountOfChange > 0.10f)
                {
                    amountOfChange -= 0.10f;
                    coinCount++;
                    Console.WriteLine("taken 0.10");
                    Console.WriteLine(amountOfChange);
                }
                else if (amountOfChange > 0.05f)
                {
                    amountOfChange -= 0.05f;
                    coinCount++;
                    Console.WriteLine("taken 0.05");
                    Console.WriteLine(amountOfChange);
                }
                else if (amountOfChange > 0.02f)
                {
                    amountOfChange -= 0.02f;
                    coinCount++;
                    Console.WriteLine("taken 0.02");
                    Console.WriteLine(amountOfChange);
                }
                else if (amountOfChange > 0.01f)
                {
                    amountOfChange -= 0.01f;
                    coinCount++;
                    Console.WriteLine("taken 0.01");
                    Console.WriteLine(amountOfChange);
                }
            }

            Console.WriteLine("The minimum amount of coins is: ", coinCount);
            
        }
    }
}

                else if (amountOfChange > 0.10f)
                {
                    amountOfChange -= 0.10f;
                    coinCount++;
                    Console.WriteLine("taken 0.10");
                    Console.WriteLine(amountOfChange);
                }
                else if (amountOfChange > 0.05f)
                {
                    amountOfChange -= 0.05f;
                    coinCount++;
                    Console.WriteLine("taken 0.05");
                    Console.WriteLine(amountOfChange);
                }
                else if (amountOfChange > 0.02f)
                {
                    amountOfChange -= 0.02f;
                    coinCount++;
                    Console.WriteLine("taken 0.02");
                    Console.WriteLine(amountOfChange);
                }
                else if (amountOfChange > 0.01f)
                {
                    amountOfChange -= 0.01f;
                    coinCount++;
                    Console.WriteLine("taken 0.01");
                    Console.WriteLine(amountOfChange);
                }
            }

            Console.WriteLine("The minimum amount of coins is: ", coinCount);
            
        }
    }
}

jadders•8mo ago

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Murten•8mo ago

You're probably just running into floating point precision errors.

jadders•8mo ago

ahh, okay, so I should use Floor, or Ceil? It happened when I converted it all to doubles too

Murten•8mo ago

You should use the modulus operator.

Erroneous Fatality•8mo ago

This is a standard problem in Computer Science: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/find-minimum-number-of-coins-that-make-a-change/

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not guilty•8mo ago

i would advise against using float and instead using decimal type for money it's the type made specifically for this case

Accord•8mo ago

Was this issue resolved? If so, run /close - otherwise I will mark this as stale and this post will be archived until there is new activity.

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