CS 102 Homework #2

Due: Feb 2

The United States government has arbitrarily decided to maintain its stubborn adherance to its outdated measurement system, including (but not limited to) feet, inches, and degrees Fahrenheit.

Unfortunately for uneducated Americans, no U.S. companies manufacture thermometers anymore, they are all manufactured abroad. Therefore it has become necessary to add electronic interfaces to all imported thermometers that convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius temperatures.

Your assignment is to implement such an interface. Your program should take as input a number, either floating point or integer. This will represent a Celsius temperature from the foreign-made thermometer. You program should then compute the Fahrenheit temperature by the formula: 9/5 Celsius + 32.

In addition, your program should compute and output the absolute distance from the temperature to the boiling point.

An example follows. Note the third example - the distance from boiling is always a positive number.

mote33[11]: a.out
Enter Celsius Temperature: 100
Fahrenheit temperature is: 212
This is 0 degrees from boiling.

mote33[12]: a.out
Enter Celsius Temperature: 51
Fahrenheit temperature is: 123.8
This is 88.2 degrees from boiling.

mote33[13]: a.out
Enter Celsius Temperature: 132
Fahrenheit temperature is: 269.6
This is 57.6 degrees from boiling.

During grading, particular attention will be paid to:

• Whether your name is on it.
• Whether it compiles.
• Whether it runs.
• Correctness of output.
• Use of meaningful variable names.
• Minimal use of parentheses in your arithmetic statements (demonstrating knowledge of the order of operations).

You will submit your assignment via the submit102 program.