[Tyler1989]

Can someone please help me with the code for deducing a fraction. The user enters a numerator and a denominator through textboxes then click a buttion. The end result is a reduced fraction in a lable. Logically you can do this in your head but when you have to do it in Basic it must be done with loops and such I'm clueless.

[TheHeadFL]

You need to use a GCD (Greatest Common Divisor) algorithm.

The easiest one to code is the one that Euclid invented...

Say I want to do 84/18. I determine which one is larger, and divide 84 by 18 leaving remainder 12. Then I divide 18 by 12 leaving remainder 6. Then I divide 12 by 6 to get remainder 0, which means that 6 is the GCD. Therefore, the fraction may be reduced by a factor of 6/6.

I leave it to you to do this in BASIC.

[i_learn]

in basic? was that not the 10 20 30 thing?
yea..........head fls method is spot on........alto you might not be able to run that in a loop..........
must confess that i had no idea that basic had those kind of loops........