Re: Programming "Digits exploration"
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Re: Programming "Digits exploration"
On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Mark Malley wrote:
> AE>Hope you can help me. I wish to write a program that will take a two digit
> AE>number and find the sum of the squares of its digits, take the new number
> AE>and perform the same procedure. My problem is how to 'separate' the digits
> AE>of the number as part of a program.
> Why don't you do something like...
> Prompt A
> Prompt B
If you want to input one number, here is the 'real' math way:
say your nmber is 678
to get the 2nd digit, use this:
(Where x is your number)
(y the digit you want...)
(10*fpart (x/(10^(y-1))))-(fpart (x/(10^(y))))
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