firstly thank you to everyone that has helped me so far, and im sorry to pester people with my basic questions...

secondly, my problem,

how do you set the amount of decimal places. i have found something that mentions the stream manipulator setprecision(2) to round the output to 2 decimal places.

it also mentions this

setiosflags(ios::fixes)

and i know i have to include <iomanip.h> at the start.

thanks again!

So based on what you have read.

How do you think you use setprecision()?

Nah. You arn't pestering us. You weren't here when we got crackles attacked. you don't know what pester means until you learn about the crackles attack. And we live to answer questions of people. As long as your polite to us and don't demand us to do stuff, we'll be fine.

thanks, its not like im trying to get you to write the programs for my uni module, i am working ahead, (bit of a geek i know) and i just get stuck at bits that arent very well described... but thankyou very much. and i sorted out the problem with the decimal points. so thanks for everyone thats helped, and this definately wont be the last post from me!

GREAT! the more the marrier. And we're always glad to help. Remember that.