Thread: print floating-points

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    print floating-points

    I have copied the below example into my compiler from a book. The example output it shows is:
    How many departments are there in the company? 7
    How many employees are in the company? 45
    What is the company's total payroll? 7645.32

    The average number of employees per department is 6
    The average payroll per department is $1092.19
    When I compile the program it gives me scientific notation for the average payroll per department instead of 1029.19. Why's that?
    I'm using the Borland C++ 4.5 complier

    Code:
    // Filename: DIV.CPP
    
    #include <iostream.h>
    #include <iomanip.h>
    
    int main()
    {
       int numDept, totalEmp, avgDept;
       float avgPay, pay;
    
       cout <<"How many departments are there in the company? ";
       cin >> numDept;
       cout <<"How many employees are there in the company? ";
       cin >> totalEmp;
       cout <<"What is the company's total payroll? ";
       cin >> pay;
       avgDept = totalEmp / numDept;   // Integer division
       avgPay = pay / numDept;   // Floating-point division;
       cout <<"\nThe average number of per department employees "
    	"is " << avgDept << "\n";
       cout.setf(ios::showpoint);
       cout <<"The average payroll per department is $"
    		  << setprecision(2) << avgPay;
    
       return 0;
    }
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    You also need cout << fixed;. 'fixed' allows decimals to be displayed rather than scientific notation.

    -Skipper

    P.S. setprecision(2) will give you a displayed value of 1.2E+03 for the value of '1200'. It's the '1.2' that has had its "precision" set to '2'. Had setprecision() had an argument of '3', you would display 1.20E+03 instead.
    Last edited by skipper; 12-01-2002 at 09:45 AM.
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