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Posted by Alex Parsons
Alex Parsons
Courses Plus Student 214 Points

Fahrenheit to Celsius converter using operators

I am trying to make a celsius to Fahrenheit converter using swift. I just finished the operators step on the course and i'm wondering how to fix it.

var fahrenheit = 10

var celsius :Double = 5/9(fahrenheit-32)

fahrenheit

Basically i start with 10 degrees fahrenheit. The i do 5/9(10-32). I get an error on that line. I am not sure what is wrong here.

1 Answer

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

you probably need to use the multiplication operator which is *. you might also need to put 5/9 in parenthesis. 

var celsius :Double = (5/9) * (fahrenheit-32)

in most programming languages you have to be explicit with multiplication, you cant use parenthesis to mean multiplication like you can in algebra and what not