The program design---The Snail

A snail is at the bottom of a 6-foot well and wants to climb to the top.The snail can climb 3 feet while the sun is up,but slides down 1 foot at night while sleeping.The snail has a fatigue factor of 10%,which means that on each successive day the snail climbs 10%*3=0.3 feet less than it did the previous day.(The distance lost to fatigue is always 10% of the first day's climbing distance.)On what day does the snail leave the well,i.e.,what is the first day during which the snail's height exceeds 6 feet?(A day consists of a period of sunlight followed by period of darkness.)As you can see from the following table,the snail leaves the well during which the third day. Input: The input file contains one or more test cases,each on a line by itselt. Each line contains four integers H,U,D,and F,separated by a single space. If H=0 it signals the end of the input;otherwise,all four numbers will be between 1 and 100,inclusive.H is the height of the well in feet,U is the distance in feet that the snail can climb during the day,D is the distance in feet that the snail slides down during the night,and F is the fatigue factor expressed as a percentage.The snail never climbs a negative distance. If the fatigue factor drops the snail's climbing distance below zero,the snail does not climb at all that day.Regardless of how far the snail climbed,it always slides D feet at night. Output: For each test case,output a line indicating whether the snail succeeded(left the well)or failed(slid back to the bottom) and on what day.Format the output exactly as shown in the example. My program: #include #include char *str; int first=1; //the first time output //the distance that snail climb during this day float snail(int day,float H,float U,float D,float F) { float temp; float result; if(day==1) { result=U; } else { temp=snail(day-1,H,U,D,F); if(temp>H) { str="success"; result=0; } else if(temp-D<0) { str="failure"; result=0; } else { result=temp-D+U-(day-1)*U*F/100; } } return result; } //clear file void clearfile() { FILE *pt; pt=fopen("output.txt","w"); fclose(pt); } //output void mywrite(int day) { FILE *pt; pt=fopen("output.txt","a"); if(!first) { fprintf(pt,"/n"); } fprintf(pt,"%s %d",str,day); fclose(pt); } void main() { clearfile(); int H,U,D,F; FILE *pt; int day; if(NULL==(pt=fopen("input.txt","r"))) { } else { fscanf(pt,"%d",&H); fscanf(pt,"%d",&U); fscanf(pt,"%d",&D); fscanf(pt,"%d",&F); while(H!=0) { day=1; while(snail(day,H,U,D,F)!=0) { day++; } day--; mywrite(day); first=0; fscanf(pt,"%d",&H); fscanf(pt,"%d",&U); fscanf(pt,"%d",&D); fscanf(pt,"%d",&F); } fclose(pt); } } Input: 6 3 1 10 10 2 1 50 50 5 3 14 50 6 4 1 50 6 3 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 Output: success 3 failure 4 failure 7 failure 68 success 20 failure 2