Sorting?

[BrightEyes]

Im tryin to make a program that you input the price of an item and the amount of money the customer gives and have it output the amount of 10s,5s,1s,Quarters,Dimes,Nickles and pennies. How do I get it to sort them? Thank you

[DrV]

Do you mean you want to know the least amount of coins you can give as change? You could write a loop like this:

Code:

input "Enter money:", money
dollars = money \ 100
money = money mod 100
do while money > 5
if money mod 25 = 0 then
  quarters = quarters + 1
  money = money - 25
elseif money mod 10 = 0 then
  dimes = dimes + 1
  money = money - 10
elseif money mod 5 = 0 then
  nickels = nickels + 1
  money = money - 5
end if
loop
pennies = money

print "dollars:"; dollars
print "quarters: "; quarters
print "dimes:"; dimes
print "nickels:'; nickels
print "pennies:"; pennies

Not sure if that will work... just typed it off the top of my head. But the general logic should be right. That's probably the long way around... will post better method after I type it in and test it...

[DrV]

Erm... better way - change the middle of the code to this:

Code:

dollars = money \ 100
    money = money Mod 100
    
    quarters = money \ 25
    money = money Mod 25
    
    dimes = money \ 10
    money = money Mod 10
    
    nickels = money \ 5
    money = money Mod 5
    
    pennies = money ' whatever's left

Hope this helps...

[BrightEyes]

like this...
Enter price of item. 24.35
Enter amount tendered. 30

0 tens
1 five
0 ones
2 Quarters
1 Dime
1 Nickle
0 penies


..........Thats what i need.

[BrightEyes]

it keeps coming up that it cant devide by 0

[DrV]

Yes, that's what my code did.

here's a more complete example:

Code:

INPUT "Enter price of item:", price
INPUT "Enter amount tendered:", tender
money = tender - price

  fives = money \ 500
  money = money Mod 500

  dollars = money \ 100
  money = money Mod 100
  
  quarters = money \ 25
  money = money Mod 25
  
  dimes = money \ 10
  money = money Mod 10
  
  nickels = money \ 5
  money = money Mod 5
  
  pennies = money ' whatever's left

you should be able to add tens, 20s etc...[/code]