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C++ Primer Plus, Fourth Edition
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C++ Primer Plus, Fourth Edition

by Stephen Prata
November 2001
Beginner content levelBeginner
1128 pages
29h 12m
English
Sams
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Output with cout

C++, we've said, considers output to be a stream of bytes. (Depending on the implementation and platform, these may be 16-bit or 32-bit bytes, but bytes nonetheless.) But many kinds of data in a program are organized into larger units than a single byte. An int type, for example, may be represented by a 16-bit or 32-bit binary value. And a double value may be represented by 64 bits of binary data. But when you send a stream of bytes to a screen, you want each byte to represent a character value. That is, to display the number -2.34 on the screen, you should send the five characters -, 2, ., 3, and 4 to the screen, and not the internal 64-bit floating-point representation of that value. Therefore, one of the most important tasks ...

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