[Drako]

You'd be correct on it being inefficient, but the entirety of cout is that way. As for flushing the stream though, that's what std::flush is for.

I had already built the entire program with cout so I didn't want to try and use printf. Printf is a lot faster. As for my problem, any solutions?

which problem was that?

My reply there. Do you at least have an idea on how I can solve it?