Money counter C program

Question

I have generated code that counts the minimum number of 20's, 10's, 5's, 2's and 1's that will add up to a user defined amount of money. The user is only allowed to enter whole numbers i.e. no decimal values. I have two questions.

1. If a denomination is not needed, the program outputs a random number instead of 0. How can I fix this?
2. Is it possible to create a function that could replace all of the if statements and possibly the printf statements? I'm new to functions so am a little bit lost with them.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(void)
{
 int pounds;
 int one, two, five, ten, twenty;

    printf("Enter a pounds amount with no decimals, max E999999: \n");
    scanf("%d", &pounds);
    printf("%d\n", pounds);

    if(pounds >= 20)
    {
        twenty = (pounds / 20);
        pounds = (pounds-(twenty * 20));
        printf("%d\n", pounds);
    }
    if(pounds >= 10)
    {
        ten = (pounds / 10);
        pounds = (pounds-(ten * 10));
        printf("%d\n", pounds);
    }
    if(pounds >= 5)
    {
        five = (pounds / 5);
        pounds = (pounds-(five * 5));
        printf("%d\n", pounds);
    }
    if(pounds >= 2)
    {
        two = (pounds / 2);
        pounds = (pounds-(two * 2));
        printf("%d\n", pounds);
    }
    if(pounds >= 1)
    {
        one = (pounds / 1);
        pounds = (pounds-(one * 1));
        printf("%d\n", pounds);
    }


 printf("The smallest amount of denominations you need are: \n");
 printf("20 x %d\n", twenty);
 printf("10 x %d\n", ten);
 printf("5 x %d\n", five);
 printf("2 x %d\n", two);
 printf("1 x %d\n", one);

return 0;
}

Answer 1

This is a great example of why you should initialize your variables when you declare them.

If pounds<20, then twenty will never get initialized. In C, variables have a (basically) random value assigned to them until you replace it with something else.

You just need to do this:

int one = 0, two = 0, five = 0, ten = 0, twenty = 0;

Answer 2

To output 0 just initialize all your variables to 0, otherwise they will be assigned "junk" values:

int one = 0, two = 0, five = 0, ten = 0, twenty = 0;

Answer 3

It is always a good practice to initialize all your variables to 0 when you declare them. This way you wont get a random value if there are no denominations to be made. You can declare and initiate your variables at the same time by doing this :

int a = 0;

or if they are many:

int a = 0, b = 0, c = 0;

If you don't initialize your variables before you use them the data they have stored in them will be random things that were in your ram before you executed your program. This is why you get random numbers as answers.