Re: Java and double

2001-11-14 Thread phillipmastroianni
try putting a 1000d (I think you have to tell the vm that this is a double value or it may try an compute a float! - Original Message - From: Micael Padraig Og mac Grene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 9:41 am Subject: Re: Java and double > Not sure

Re: Java and double

2001-11-14 Thread Micael Padraig Og mac Grene
D]> Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 8:44 AM Subject: RE: Java and double >Ya, I've seen that one before. use the java.math package. > >-Original Message- >From: Laurent Michenaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 10:39 AM >

RE: Java and double

2001-11-14 Thread Slava
Try to use BigDecimal. It should be OK. --- "Mangi, Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ya, I've seen that one before. use the java.math package. > > -Original Message- > From: Laurent Michenaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 10:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: Java and double

2001-11-14 Thread Mangi, Rick
Ya, I've seen that one before. use the java.math package. -Original Message- From: Laurent Michenaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 10:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Java and double Hi, Excuse me... this mail shouldnot be on this mailing list but i

RE: Java and double

2001-11-14 Thread Jim Rueschhoff
There is no problem. Float and Double represents a number as a mantissa and radix which produces a close but not exact representation of a number. If you round to a reasonable number of decimal places you will get the "correct" result but if you insist on looking at the full precision of the num