What does it mean if my program compiles but when I run it it says foating point exception (core dumped). Thanks for your help!!

yeah try to do do

Here is my code. The program should find the standard deviation of a list of numbers entered in an array.

#include <iostream>
#include <cmath>

void input(double dev[], int& count);
double average(const double dev[], int size);
double calculation(const double dev[], double totalAverage, int size);

int main()
{
    const int MAX = 100;
    double dev[MAX], totalAverage, deviation, total;
    int size, count;

    input(dev, size);
    totalAverage = average(dev, size);
    deviation = sqrt (calculation(dev, totalAverage, int size));
    cout << deviation << endl;
}

void input(double dev[], int& count)
{
    const int SENTINEL = -1;
    int number;

    cout << "Enter a list of numbers and -1 to end the list" << endl;
    count = 0;
    cin >> number;
    while(number != SENTINEL)
    {
        dev[count] = number;
        count++;
        cin >> number;
    }
}

double average(const double dev[], int size)
{
    double total = 0;
    for( int i = 0; i < size; i++)
    {
        total = (total + dev[i]) / size;
    }
    return total;
}

double calculation(const double dev[], double totalAverage, int size)
{
    double standard;
    for(int i = 0; i < size; i++)
    {
        standard = ((dev[i] - totalAverage) * (dev[i] - totalAverage)) / size;
    }
    return standard;
}
deviation = sqrt (calculation(dev, totalAverage, int size));

This is a syntax error, it should be:

deviation = sqrt (calculation(dev, totalAverage, size));

You should have this after your includes (at a minimum).

using namespace std;

My output

Enter a list of numbers and -1 to end the list
5
6
1
2
9
0
17
-1
5.49721

What compiler/OS?

I added the using namespace std; and took the int off and I still get a floating point exception(core dumped).

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