PLEASE HELP

[hannahe]

I have a project due at midnight tonight that I cannot figure out. I need to write a program that will calculate a user's salary if their pay starts at a penny and doubles every day from then on for up to a month. I cannot figure out what formula to write to get my pay amounts to calculate and I do not know how to total them all up either. Please please help! This is the code I have so far.

  #include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>

using namespace std;

#define MAX_DAYS 30
#define MIN_DAYS 1
#define START_PAY .01

int main()

{

int days, count;
double payAmount, total;

cout<<"How many days will you be working (1-30)? ";
cin>>days;
cout<<endl;

while (days < MIN_DAYS || days > MAX_DAYS)
	{
	cout<<"Error: the number of days must be between 1 and 30. Try again: ";
	cin>>days;
	cout<<endl;
	}
	
cout<< "Days               Pay Amount"<<endl;
cout<< "-----------------------------"<<endl;  


for (count=1; count>=MIN_DAYS&&count<=MAX_DAYS; count++)
	{
	
	cout<<setw(2)<<count<<setw(22)<<payAmount<<endl;
	
	}
	
return 0;
}

[closed account 3R5fjE8b]

This is a great time to use a recursive function. Put this in a for loop that will execute 30 times.

int double(int&penny)
{
   penny = penny * 2;
   return double(penny);
}

[Texan40]

made a few adjustments to your original code, with some notes

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <limits>

using namespace std;

#define MAX_DAYS 30
#define MIN_DAYS 1
#define START_PAY .01

int main()
{

  int days;
  double payAmount = 0.0, total = 0.0;

  cout<<"How many days will you be working (1-30)? ";
  cin>>days;
  cout<<endl;

  while (days < MIN_DAYS || days > MAX_DAYS)
  {
    cin.ignore(std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max(),'\n'); // flush cin buffer in case a non-numeric was entered
    cin.clear(); // clear cin error flags etc
    cout<<"Error: the number of days must be between 1 and 30. Try again: ";
    cin>>days;
    cout<<endl;
  }

cout<< "Days               Pay Amount"<<endl;
cout<< "-----------------------------"<<endl;

payAmount = START_PAY; // first day standard pay
for(int count=0; count < days; count++)
{
  if(count) payAmount *= 2; // first day, regular rate, then double every day thereafter
  total += payAmount; // add payAmount to total
  cout<<setw(2)<<count+1<<setw(22)<< "$" << std::fixed << std::setprecision(2)<<payAmount<<endl; // 2 decimal places
}

cout<< endl << "Total Pay: $" << std::fixed << std::setprecision(2) << total << endl;

return 0;
}

[Pindrought]

This is a great time to use a recursive function. Put this in a for loop that will execute 30 times.

int double(int&penny)
{
   penny = penny * 2;
   return double(penny);
}

Why would you post a recursive function that calls itself infinitely into stack overflow that is also called double which is a data type so it wouldn't even compile..?

[closed account 3R5fjE8b]

For the lawls.

[Pindrought]

For the lawls.

Why are you even on here?

[shamieh]

For the lawls.

Troll Post

[Pindrought]

Aaand that's why you're banned.

[Mr D]

Damn trolls.