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I've used the following to round my values to 2 decimal points:
x = floor(num*100+0.5)/100;
and this seems to work fine; except for values like "16.60", which is "16.6".
I want to output this value like "16.60".
The way I'm outputting values is the following:
cout setw(12) << round(payment);
I've tried the following:
cout setw(12) << setprecision(2) << round(payment);
But that gave me answers like
1.2e+02
How can I output the values correctly?
This is because std::setprecision
doesn't set the digits after the decimal point but the significant digits if you don't change the floating point format to use a fixed number of digits after the decimal point. To change the format, you have to put std::fixed into your output stream:
double a = 16.6;
std::cout << std::fixed << std::setprecision(2) << a << std::endl;
you can use printf / sprintf or other similar functions. Following code will format floating point value into two digits after decimals. Refer to the printf manual for more formatting info
float f = 1.234567
printf("%.2f\n", f);
From Trevor Boyd Smith's comment:
If you are allergic to printf and friends there is the type safe C++ version in #include <boost/format.hpp>
which you can use to do:
float f = 1.234567;
cout << boost::format("%.2f") % f << endl;