Arduino circuit 07

Hi everyone

Just got my very first arduino starter pack and it has been great fun the past few hours.

When going through the lessons there is one part I didn't quite understand and not sure what to search to find some answer, so I was hoping I could get some help here with a really newbie question.

As I understand it, getVoltage(temperaturePin) does analogRead on pin 0.

Further down in the it says

float getVoltage(int pin) and

return (analogRead(pin) * 0.004882814);

But I can't see the parameter "pin" itself contains anything, what does it do?

const int temperaturePin = 0;


void setup()
{
  
  Serial.begin(9600);
}


void loop()
{

  float voltage, degreesC, degreesF;

  voltage = getVoltage(temperaturePin);

  degreesC = (voltage - 0.5) * 100.0;
  
  degreesF = degreesC * (9.0/5.0) + 32.0;

  Serial.print("voltage: ");
  Serial.print(voltage);
  Serial.print("  deg C: ");
  Serial.print(degreesC);
  Serial.print("  deg F: ");
  Serial.println(degreesF);
 
  delay(1000); // repeat once per second (change as you wish!)
}


float getVoltage(int pin)
{
  
  return (analogRead(pin) * 0.004882814);
  
}
float getVoltage(int pin)
{
  return (analogRead(pin) * 0.004882814);
}

It's there as an argument to getVoltage. Since it does:

  voltage = getVoltage(temperaturePin);

Then "pin" would be temperaturePin in this case.