fixing numbers

[smlbstcbr]

please, how do i fix a number in c++,
my problem is that a float number returns me a lot of decimals that i do not need to display so I want to cut those off the number

[major_small]

use setprecision... I forgot the code and dont have any access to any of the programs i've written with it in there tho... but you can look it up...

//edit: setprecision doesn't round the number, it truncates... i.e.:
with setprecision set to two ( cout<<setprecision(2); ):
6.1564 = 6.15
6.150041 = 6.15
483.480001 = 183.48
483.4863487 = 483.48

[axon]

Originally posted by major_small
use setprecision... I forgot the code and dont have any access to any of the programs i've written with it in there tho... but you can look it up...

major_small, you mean to tell me that you don't remember the majic formula that every programmer should recite without hesitation when waken up in the middle of the night??? just kidding, hehe

  cout.setf(ios::showpoint);
  cout.setf(ios::fixed);
  cout.precision(/*number of digitts here*/);

axon

EDIT:: BTW this is within iomanip lib

[major_small]

^haha... i haven't used it in so long... i was actually the only one to memorize it in my high school programming class...

[RancidWannaRiot]

i thought Set precision does round numbers off... it does when i do it.