setprecision()

I have been tricked! setprecision() does not change the amount of decimals being printed out, it changes the amount of numbers to be printed out. E.g:

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
        cout<<setprecision(5)<<24.435166;
        cin.get();
        return 0;
}

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Would output 24.435 (5 numbers) instead of 24.43517 (5 decimals).
printf() can do this simply by using %.5f, so how do you do it with cout?

before the cout add:
cout.setf(ios::fixed);

>setprecision() does not change the amount of decimals being printed out
As Thantos demonstrated, it does if you use fixed point:

Code:

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        cout << fixed << setprecision(5) << 24.435166;

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