Thread: rounding off outputs

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    rounding off outputs

    I am making this program for a fake store that will take the price of an item and add it to the other items you put in and then multiply by sales tax. I was just wondering how i could round everything off to the 100th. For example, if the price of the item was 1.25 and that was all they bought, 1.25 * .0825 is 1.66562. I would like it to read 1.67. Here is the code so far.

    Code:
    #include <iostream>
    
    using namespace std;
    
    main()
    {
    	const float SALESTAX = .0825;
    	float totalprice;
    	float totalpricewithouttax;
    	float item1;
    	float item2;
    	float item3;
    	float item4;
    	float item5;
    
    	cout<<"Enter the price of an item: ";
    	cin>> item1;
    	
    	if (item1 < 0) {
    		cout<<"You must enter a price";
    		return 1;
    }
    
    	if (item1 > 0) {
    		cout<<"If this is the only item being bought, enter 0.  If not, enter the price for item 2: ";
    }
    	cin>> item2;
    
    	if (item2 == 0) {
    		totalpricewithouttax= item1;
    		totalprice= (item1) * (item1 + SALESTAX);
    	cout<< "The price is "<< totalpricewithouttax<< endl;
    	cout<< "The total ammount due is "<< totalprice << endl;
    }
    }

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    Use the fixed and setprecision() manipuators in your cout. Be sure to include <iomanip>.

    ie... cout << fixed << setprecision(2) << "The price is.....

    fixed will force the output in fixed (vs scientific) format, as well as force the trailing zeros to be displayed. setprecision() sets how many decimal points.
    Last edited by Scribbler; 02-02-2005 at 03:06 PM.

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    > was just wondering how i could round everything off to the 100th.
    Code:
    #include <iomanip>
    .
    .
        cout << "The price is "<< fixed << setprecision(2) << totalpricewithouttax<< endl;

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    Or without using the <iomanip> header:

    Code:
    float fVar;
    ...
    cout.precision(2);
    cout.flags(ios::fixed);
    cout << fVar;
    Last edited by hk_mp5kpdw; 02-02-2005 at 03:09 PM.
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    Edit: damn! beaten.

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    Hi,
    You can try something like this. It is crude, but effective.

    roundedNumber = int (fabs(originalNumber) * 100 + 0.5) / 100
    Last edited by bugsmashers; 02-21-2005 at 07:53 PM. Reason: Spelling error

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