Ch. 3.7: Formatting Output

Question 1

What is formatting?

Answer 1

The way a value is printed.

Question 2

What is the setprecision manipulator?

Answer 2

You can control the number of significant digits with which floating-point values are displayed by using the setprecision manipulator.

Question 3

What is fixed point notation?

Answer 3

Forces cout to print all floating point numbers that are subsequently printed to be displayed with the number of digits to the right of the decimal point specified.

Question 4

What is the showpoint manipulator?

Answer 4

If we want the numbers padded with trailing zeros, we must use the showpoint manipuator.

Question 5

What are the left and right manipulators?

Answer 5

Allows your values to be right or left justified, or aligned to the right of left of it print field.