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Asked: 2026-05-20T23:53:11+00:00

I have two floating point numbers. If I add that 2 numbers means. It

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I have two floating point numbers. If I add that 2 numbers means. It will displaying the answer as 4.50000 (I used just %f). If I used (2.%f) means the answer is just 4.
I want the answer as 4.5. What do I have to modify in this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try the format string %2.1f:

    $ printf "%2.1f\n" 4.5
4.5

    The .1 says “one character after the radix”.

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