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Visual Basic and Algorithmic Thinking for the Complete Beginner
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Visual Basic and Algorithmic Thinking for the Complete Beginner

by Aristides Bouras
June 2024
Beginner
976 pages
16h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 23 More with Decision Control Structures

23.1 Simple Exercises with Decision Control Structures

Exercise 23.1-1 Is it an Integer?

Write a Visual Basic program that prompts the user to enter a number and then displays a message indicating whether the data type of this number is integer or real.

Solution

It is well known that a number is considered an integer when it contains no fractional part. In Visual Basic, you can use the Fix() function to get the integer portion of any real number. If the user-provided number is equal to its integer portion, then the number is considered an integer.

For example, if the user enters the number 7, this number and its integer portion, Fix(7), are equal.

On the other hand, if the user enters the number ...

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