How to fix a broken program

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I tried to make a program for calculating the mass of an orbiting body- but Its pretty much totaled. If someone could sort this mess out I will be eternally thankful. Here's the code, good luck.

C++

#include <iostream>
int main()
using namespace std;{


int main ()
{
	system("pause");
	int i;
	cout <<"Input orbital period in seconds: ";
	cin >> t;
	cout << "Orbital time= " << t;
	cout << "Input Object distance from sun in meters: ";
	(cin >> d;
	cout << "Orbital distance= " << d;
	
	g = (6.6 * 10^-11)

	m = (d^3 * (4 * 3.14159)^2) / (g * (t^2))

	cout << "Object mass= " << m;

	

}</iostream>

Posted 29-Aug-15 13:36pm

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Updated 31-Aug-15 2:36am

den2k88

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Patrice T 29-Aug-15 20:31pm

What is your problem exactly ?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-Aug-15 21:03pm

Sorry, this is not a question; it's a request: "do my job for me", without even exact specifications of requirements.
—SA

Patrice T 29-Aug-15 21:35pm

I see that it is also a repost with only 1 line change.
http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/1022787/How-do-I-get-a-program-to-pause

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Solution 1

Please see my comment to the question (rather a non-question).

No, this is not a "broken program", this is a program which never has been written, so there is nothing to break. And, I guess, you never learned the language you pretend to write in. For example, you need to declare all variables, use the type double for your calculations, to calculate power, you have to use the function pow (http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cmath/pow[^]), and so on.

No, you need no help except a good kick: sit down and learn the subject, to learn how to do the job.

—SA

Posted 29-Aug-15 15:09pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Solution 3

Your solution: Learn the language

You are actually asking us to do the program for you incrementally by Reposting the same program every time you make a change.
How do I get a program to pause?[^]

That is Abusive

Posted 29-Aug-15 15:39pm

Patrice T

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Philippe Mori · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-29T15:29:00

In C/C++ as in many other programming language ^ denote the XOR operator and not an exponent.

So what you have written as 6.6 * 10^-11 should be written as 6.6e-11. The same apply for Pow in formula. For a power of two, one would usually write something like (t * t) since it is more efficiency and quite common. For other function, one would generally use pow function from the standard library.