print double with precision 4 using cout [duplicat

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Convert a double to fixed decimal point in C++

Suppose , I have double a = 0 and I want to print it as 0.0000 .

I've tried this :

cout.precision(4) ; 
cout<<a<<endl ; 

but it gaves 0 as the output.

Answer 1

#include <iomanip>
#include <iostream.h>


int main()
{
double a = 0.00;
// print a double, 2 places of precision 
cout << setprecision(4) << a << endl;
}

Answer 2

Just try:

#include <iomanip>
...
cout << fixed << setprecision(4);
cout << a << endl;

See here.