Thread: floating point numbers

Why does this:

Code:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main () {
        float this=20000.6;
        printf ("%.5f\n", this);
}

give me this output:

20000.59961

Because that's what it's supposed to do. See the manual. http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/c...io/printf.html

It's 5 digits after the decimal place, as per the manual. Not to mention floating points are approximations hence 20000.6 ~= 20000.59961