(Find the number of years and days)

Question

Write a program that prompts the user to enter the minutes (e.g., 1 billion), and displays the number of years and days for the minutes. For simplicity, assume a year has 365 days. Here is a sample run:

Enter the number of minutes: 1000000000

1000000000 minutes is approximately 1902 years and 214 days

Answer 1

import math

def minutes_to_days(minutes):

return minutes/60/24

def days_to_years(days):

return days/365

minutes = input("Enter the total number of minutes: ")

days = minutes_to_days(minutes)

years = math.floor(days_to_years(days))

remaining_days = math.floor(days-years*365)

print(years)

print(remaining_days)

Hi,

Please see the above code.

(1) we specify two simple functions to convert minutes to days and to convert days to years

NOTE: there's also a library called datetime which would help you immensely for practical problems like this but I'm assuming this is for learning so we do the calculations "by hand"

(2) from the input we first calculate the total days

(3) convert that to years and use the math.floor function to round down

(4) then we calculate how many days we have leftover (and round down for an approximation)

Hope this is clear!