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Dan Cairnes
Dan Cairnes

Reputation: 591

Formatting a double to two decimal places

I have been trying to make the answer this prints out to be to two decimal places. All the math involved has to stay at that format of two decimal places. I have tried a few things and I am not sure what to change to make this work. 

double pdt1 = 239.99;
double pdt1Total;
double pdt2 = 129.75;
double pdt2Total;
double pdt3 = 99.95;
double pdt3Total;
double pdt4 = 350.89;
double pdt4Total;
double wage = 200;
double percentage = 9;
double total;
double answer;
double i = 100;
double a;
double b;
double c;
double d;


Console.Write("Enter number sold of product #1: ");
a = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());

Console.Write("Enter number sold of product #2: ");
b = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());

Console.Write("Enter number sold of product #3: ");
c = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());

Console.Write("Enter number sold of product #4: ");
d = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());



pdt1Total = a * pdt1;
pdt2Total = b * pdt2;
pdt3Total = c * pdt3;
pdt4Total = d * pdt4;

total = (pdt1Total + pdt2Total + pdt3Total + pdt4Total);



string.Format("{0:0.00}", total);
string.Format("{0:0.00}", answer = (total * percentage / i) + wage);


Console.WriteLine("Earnings this week: "+answer+"");

Upvotes: 58

Views: 341350

Answers (8)

glyvox
glyvox

Reputation: 58029

If you want 0.5 instead of .5, use d.ToString("0.##").

Upvotes: 0

Kamran Bigdely
Kamran Bigdely

Reputation: 8456

    double d =  3.1493745;
    string s = $"{d:0.00}"; // or $"{d:#.##}"
    Console.WriteLine(s); // Displays 3.15

Upvotes: 11

philoroussel
philoroussel

Reputation: 113

The problem is that when you are doing additions and multiplications of numbers all with two decimal places, you expect there will be no rounding errors, but remember the internal representation of double is in base 2, not in base 10 ! So a number like 0.1 in base 10 may be in base 2 : 0.101010101010110011... with an infinite number of decimals (the value stored in the double will be a number N with : 

 0.1-Math.Pow(2,-64) < N < 0.1+Math.Pow(2,-64)

As a consequence an operation like 12.3 + 0.1 may be not the same exact 64 bits double value as 12.4 (or 12.456 * 10 may be not the same as 124.56) because of rounding errors. For example if you store in a Database the result of 12.3 +0.1 into a table/column field of type double precision number and then SELECT WHERE xx=12.4 you may realize that you stored a number that is not exactly 12.4 and the Sql select will not return the record; So if you cannot use the decimal datatype (which has internal representation in base 10) and must use the 'double' datatype, you have to do some normalization after each addition or multiplication :

double freqMHz= freqkHz.MulRound(0.001); // freqkHz*0.001
double amountEuro= amountEuro.AddRound(delta); // amountEuro+delta


    public static double AddRound(this double d,double val)
    {
        return double.Parse(string.Format("{0:g14}", d+val));
    }
    public static double MulRound(this double d,double val)
    {
        return double.Parse(string.Format("{0:g14}", d*val));
    }

Upvotes: 1

anhoppe
anhoppe

Reputation: 4497

I would recomment the Fixed-Point ("F") format specifier (as mentioned by Ehsan). See the Standard Numeric Format Strings.

With this option you can even have a configurable number of decimal places:

public string ValueAsString(double value, int decimalPlaces)
{
    return value.ToString($"F{decimalPlaces}");
}

Upvotes: 15

Damith
Damith

Reputation: 63065

string.Format will not change the original value, but it will return a formatted string. For example:

Console.WriteLine("Earnings this week: {0:0.00}", answer);

Note: Console.WriteLine allows inline string formatting. The above is equivalent to:

Console.WriteLine("Earnings this week: " + string.Format("{0:0.00}", answer));

Upvotes: 86

Peter
Peter

Reputation: 844

Since you are working in currency why not simply do this:

Console.Writeline("Earnings this week: {0:c}", answer);

This will format answer as currency, so on my machine (UK) it will come out as:

Earnings this week: £209.00

Upvotes: 3

Ehsan
Ehsan

Reputation: 32661

Well, depending on your needs you can choose any of the following. Out put is written against each method

You can choose the one you need

This will round

decimal d = 2.5789m;
Console.WriteLine(d.ToString("#.##")); // 2.58

This will ensure that 2 decimal places are written.

d = 2.5m;
Console.WriteLine(d.ToString("F")); //2.50

if you want to write commas you can use this

d=23545789.5432m;
Console.WriteLine(d.ToString("n2")); //23,545,789.54

if you want to return the rounded of decimal value you can do this

d = 2.578m;
d = decimal.Round(d, 2, MidpointRounding.AwayFromZero); //2.58

Upvotes: 93

Karl Anderson
Karl Anderson

Reputation: 34846

You can round a double to two decimal places like this:

double c;
c = Math.Round(c, 2);

But beware rounding will eventually bite you, so use it with caution.

Instead use the decimal data type.

Upvotes: 16

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