The necessity of 'showpoint' manipulator

[SamuelTangz]

Hi,

I am a novice on C++ programming, and recently I am studying decimal representations.
Eventually I found the following code:

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#include<iostream>
#include<iomanip>
using namespace std;
int main(void){
 float x = 1;
 cout << fixed << showpoint << setprecision(4);
 cout << x;
 return 0;
}

And the output is, 0.0000.

I found that the purpose of 'showpoint' is to display the decimal point if it is a floating-point number, no matter the decimal part exists or not.
However, the 'fixed' manipulator does the same thing (apparently for me).

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#include<iostream>
#include<iomanip>
using namespace std;
int main(void){
 float x = 1;
 cout << fixed << setprecision(4);
 cout << x;
 return 0;
}

And the output for this code segment is also 1.0000.

Is 'showpoint' necessary in the above code?
What are the differences between these codes?

Many thanks,
Samuel