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Symbols Used in Flowchart: Symbol Purpose Description

Flowcharts use symbols to visually represent algorithms and programs. Common symbols include shapes to indicate start/stop, input/output, processing, and decision-making. Flowcharts can help explain programs to others and aid in writing and debugging code. However, drawing flowcharts becomes complicated for complex programs and is sometimes omitted.

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Symbols Used in Flowchart: Symbol Purpose Description

Flowcharts use symbols to visually represent algorithms and programs. Common symbols include shapes to indicate start/stop, input/output, processing, and decision-making. Flowcharts can help explain programs to others and aid in writing and debugging code. However, drawing flowcharts becomes complicated for complex programs and is sometimes omitted.

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Flowchart is a diagrammatic representation of an algorithm.

Flowchart are
very helpful in writing program and explaining program to others.

Symbols Used In Flowchart


Different symbols are used for different states in flowchart, For example:
Input/Output and decision making has different symbols. The table below
describes all the symbols that are used in making flowchart

Symbol Purpose Description

Used to indicate the flow of logic by


Flow line connecting symbols.

Used to represent start and end of


Terminal(Stop/Start) flowchart.

Input/Output Used for input and output operation.

Used for airthmetic operations and data-


Processing manipulations.

Desicion
Used to represent the operation in which
Symbol Purpose Description

there are two alternatives,true and false.

On-page Connector Used to join different flowline

Used to connect flowchart portion on


Off-page Connector different page.

Predefined Used to represent a group of statements


Process/Function performing one processing task.
Examples of flowcharts in programming

Draw a flowchart to add two numbers entered by user.


Draw flowchart to find the largest among three different numbers

entered by user.
Draw a flowchart to find all the roots of a quadratic equation ax2+bx+c=0
Draw a flowchart to find the Fibonacci series till term≤1000.

Though, flowchart are useful in efficient coding, debugging and analysis of


a program, drawing flowchart in very complicated in case of complex
programs and often ignored.

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