Generic Form of a 4 digit number

Generic Form of a 4 digit number - C Programming Example

This program is an example to figure out the generic form of a 4 digit number through C Programming.

C Programming Code

#include<stdio.h>

#include<conio.h>

main()

{

    int num,a,b,c,d,e;

    printf("Input a 4 digit number \n");

    scanf("%d",&num);

    a=num/1000;

    num=num-a*1000;

    b=num/100;

    num=num-b*100;

    c=num/10;

    num=num-c*10;

    d=num;

    e=a+b+c+d;

    printf("The generic form of the 4 digit number is %d", e);

    getch();

}

Output of code

Generic form

Explanation of code

·         #include<stdio.h>

#include<conio.h>

Ø  This are called header file.A header file is a file with extension .h which contains C function declarations and macro definitions to be shared between several source filesThe C programming language provides many standard library functions for file input and output. These functions make up the bulk of the C standard library header <stdio.h>.In the other hand <conio.h> is a C header file used mostly by MS-DOS compilers to provide console input/output. It is not part of the C standard library or ISO C. This header declares several useful library functions for performing "console input and output" from a program.

·         main()

Ø  In C, program execution starts from the main() function. The main function can in-turn call other functions. When main calls a function, it passes the execution control to that function. The function returns control to main when a return statement is executed or when end of function is reached.

·            int num,a,b,c,d,e;

Ø  int is a variable or data type. A variable declared to be of type int can be used for storing numbers which don’t have decimal points. Here we declare “num,a,b,c,d,e”variable in int type.

·         printf() function

Ø  C uses printf() function to write from the input devices. This function has been declared in the header file called stdio.h . Any text written within the pair of quotes ("") is displayed as such by printf() function on the screen. 

·         scanf() function

Ø  This function is used to get input from the user of the program. scanf(“%d”,&num”) is used here. So, this program will read in a int value for “num” variable that the user enters on the keyboard (%d is for int values. As there is “&num”, the number user enters will be the value of “num” variable).

a=num/1000;

num=num-a*1000;

b=num/100;

num=num-b*100;

c=num/10;

num=num-c*10;

                     d=num;

This part of the code is simple, one just needs a bit patience to understand it. We know that generic form means the summation of the digits within a number, or in this case a 4 digit number.

Firstly let’s take a number such as 1234.

Then a = num/1000 as this data variable type is integer in value that’s why a will only scan and save 1 in it, not 1.234 the decimal point number.

Then again num= num-a*1000 here,

Num= 1234-1*1000

So, num= 1234-1000 or num=234

Then again the same processes are repeated where b=2,c=3 and finally d= num as then the value of num will become 4 in this case.

In such a way, any digits from a 4 digit number can be sequentially extracted and then finally

e= a=b+c+d

Here e is the summation of the digits within the 4 digit number or in other words the generic form of the number.

printf("The generic form of the 4 digit number is %d", e);

 getch();

Then finally the output is shown in printf and finally getch(); is written to end the program as we used <conio.h> as header.