I'm new to Java and I'm trying to create an ADT. My ADT involves creating and processing fractions through input of a numerator and denominator. I want one of my methods to add two fractions together and return a simplified fraction based on the gcd of the two sums. The problem I'm having is with instantiating the components of the two fractions(the numerator and denominator). The method should take a fraction other, denoted public Rational add(Rational other)
. The first variables I assigned were
int d1 = this.denominator;
int d2 = other.denominator;
but this doesn't seem to work. Below is the method thus far:
public Rational add(Rational other){
int d1 = this.denominator;
int d2 = other.denominator;
int dtotal = d1*d2;
int n1 = this.numerator*d2;
int n2 = other.numerator*d1;
int ntotal = n1+n2;
if(ntotal>dtotal){
for(int i=1; i<=ntotal; i++){
if(ntotal%i==0 && dtotal%i==0){
gcd=i;
}
}
}else if(dtotal>ntotal){
for(int i=1;i<=dtotal;i++){
if(dtotal%i==0 && ntotal%i==0){
gcd=i;
}
}
}else if(dtotal==ntotal){
gcd=numerator;
}
numerator = ntotal/gcd;
denominator = dtotal/gcd;
}
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