[Dev-C++] help on a loop

hi everyone..freshman cpp needs help again
i want this program to request for any number of integers to be compared for the lowest integer. thanx for your time. peter

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main (){
    int num, i, min_so_far;
    cout << "How many numbers do you want to compare: ";
    cin >> i;
    cout << "enter the numbers to be counted: ";
    cin >> min_so_far;
    for (int i=0; i<min_so_far; i++)
        {
        cout << "enter number: ";
        cin >> num;
        if (num < min_so_far)
            min_so_far = num;
}    
    cout << "the minimum is " << min_so_far << endl;
    return 0;
} 

 
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