C++ Compound Interest Exercise

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I'm a beginner trying to learn C++ using "C++ Primer Plus Sixth Edition".

I'm on Chapter 5, going over loops. Anyways I was doing this programming exercise from the book, the problem is:

Daphne invests $100 at 10% simple interest.That is, every year, the investment earns 10% of the original investment, or $10 each and every year: interest = 0.10 × original balance At the same time, Cleo invests $100 at 5% compound interest.That is, interest is 5% of the current balance, including previous additions of interest:

interest = 0.05 × current balance

Cleo earns 5% of $100 the first year, giving her $105.The next year she earns 5% of $105, or $5.25, and so on.Write a program that finds how many years it takes for the value of Cleo’s investment to exceed the value of Daphne’s investment and then displays the value of both investments at that time.

Here is the code I have written for this exercise, I'm not getting good results though.

#include <iostream>
#include <array>

double Daphne(int, double, double);
double Chleo(double, double);

int main() {
    using namespace std;
    int p = 100; //Principle
    double i1 = 0.1; // 10% interest rate
    double i2 = 0.05; // 5% interest rate
    double dInv = 0; //Daphnes investment
    double cInv = 0; // Chleos investment
    int t=1; //Starting at year 1
    double s1 = 0; //Sum 1 for Daphne
    double s2 = 0; // Sum 2 for Chleo

    s1 = p + 10; //Initial interest (base case after year 1) for Daphne
    s2 = p + (i2*p); //Initial interest (base case after year 1) for Chleo

    /*cout << s1 << endl;
    cout << s2 << endl;*/
    while (cInv < dInv) {
        dInv = Daphne(p, i1, s1);
        cInv = Chleo(i2, s2);
        t++;
    }

    cout << "The time taken for Chleos investment to exceed Daphnes was: " << t << endl;
    cout << "Daphnes investment at " << t << " years is: " << dInv << endl;
    cout << "Chleos invesment at " << t << " years is: " << cInv << endl;

    system("pause");
    return 0;

}

double Daphne(int p, double i, double s1) {
    s1 = s1 + (p*i);
    return s1;
}

double Chleo(double i, double s2){
    s2 = s2 + (s2*i);
    return s2;
}

Output from console:

The time taken for Chleos investment to exceed Daphnes was: 1
Daphnes investment at 1 years is: 0
Chleos invesment at 1 years is: 0
Press any key to continue . . .

Can anyone explain why I'm getting this current result? The while loop is supposed to continue executing statements until Chleo's investment exceeds Daphnes.

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