Please help me understand what this question is asking
This is a practice problem from a book, "Jumping into C++" by Alex Allain:
"Implement the source code that turns numbers into English text for numbers between -2 billion and 2 billion."
I want to know if the author is asking for a program that has the user input a number before having it turn it into text or if he just wants a program that lists every number from -2 billion to 2 billion in text fashion. To me, the problem sounds hard either way, but the former more so than the latter.
"Implement the source code that turns numbers into English text for numbers between -2 billion and 2 billion."
I want to know if the author is asking for a program that has the user input a number before having it turn it into text or if he just wants a program that lists every number from -2 billion to 2 billion in text fashion. To me, the problem sounds hard either way, but the former more so than the latter.
If you consider turning an arbitrary number into text as a function, then the only difference between your two interpretations is calling that function after prompting the user for a number, or calling that function inside a loop.
Frankly, the second interpretation doesn't make any sense. What are you going to do with 4 billion text strings? Display them on the console?
Frankly, the second interpretation doesn't make any sense. What are you going to do with 4 billion text strings? Display them on the console?
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