## CCC '02 S2 - Fraction Action

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Points: 5
Time limit: 0.5s
Memory limit: 64M

Problem type
##### Canadian Computing Competition: 2002 Stage 1, Junior #4, Senior #2

Many advanced calculators have a fraction feature that will simplify fractions for you.

You are to write a program that will accept for input a non-negative integer as a numerator and a positive integer as a denominator, and output the fraction in simplest form. That is, the fraction cannot be reduced any further, and the numerator will be less than the denominator. You can assume that all input numerators and denominators will produce valid fractions.

#### Sample Input 1

28
7

#### Sample Output 1

4

#### Sample Input 2

13
5

#### Sample Output 2

2 3/5

#### Sample Input 3

0
7

#### Sample Output 3

0

#### Sample Input 4

55
10

#### Sample Output 4

5 1/2

• commented on March 27, 2021, 12:17 p.m.

For those getting presentation error make sure to print a newline at the end

• commented on March 24, 2021, 12:17 p.m.

This question should have more test cases, it could've been harder

• commented on Sept. 11, 2020, 11:02 p.m.

Good Question. I approve.

• commented on July 11, 2020, 10:19 p.m.

Does anyone know why my code is not working? Help would be much appreciated!

• commented on July 11, 2020, 10:41 p.m.

On sample 4, your most recent submission outputs "5 5/10" instead of "5 1/2"

• commented on July 11, 2020, 11:28 p.m.

Thank you so much! I have finally solved the problem :)

• commented on Jan. 11, 2020, 10:14 p.m.

Can someone please explain why problem 5 is not working for me?

• commented on Nov. 28, 2019, 3:35 p.m. edit 2

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• commented on July 10, 2020, 11:21 a.m.

the denominator can't be zero

• commented on Dec. 22, 2017, 5:15 p.m.

• commented on Dec. 23, 2017, 12:48 p.m.

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• commented on Dec. 5, 2017, 10:53 p.m.

For test case 4 it's 4 0/3 which is just 4 but I keep getting it wrong. Help

• commented on Dec. 5, 2017, 11:35 p.m.

Your code suffers from precision issues (that is, a value of 1 in double ends up being "stored" as 0.9999999.... and that gets rounded down)

As a good rule of thumb, whenever you can avoid floating point arithmetic, you should.

• commented on March 11, 2015, 8:42 p.m.

If the answer turns out to be 0 and a fraction, do we just need to print 0? I keep getting a wrong answer on the answers with 0 in them

• commented on March 11, 2015, 8:59 p.m.

If the answer is 0 1/2, don't print the 0