The users where I work found an interesting problem that I've been trying to figure-out. I've got a workaround coded and out to them but I'm still confused about how in the world there was a problem in the first place. The code below illustrates the problem. I start with variable dCheckAmt with a dollar amount of 7.79. It goes through ...
no. Floating point arithmetic is limited by the precision of your hardware and cannot be guaranteed to have no difference in far decimal places. You can of course use Math.round() to turn the result into a long if you so wish but that won't help you in realistic cases where the result is a floating point number of its own. Another ...
I am doing the following subtraction using 2 double values class temp { public static void main(String[] args) { double d = 200.123; double f = 100.123; double t = d - f; System.out.println("t " + t); } } Ans: t 99.99999999999999 I get the result as above instead of 100. Can anyone tell me why this is happening? Also, similar ...
In subtracting one double from another, namely 45.32 - 45.31, I get a result of 0.00999999999999801. According to all the math I've ever learned, the answer should be .01. I asked my professor about this, and his response was that "45.31 may be a repeating decimal." To which I responded, "I have no idea what that means." Help please!
Thanks for all your help, I understand whats happening a bit now, not fully though (e.g. why a - can reproduce this effect and the + doesn't). I found this effect very strange as I've never heard of it before. I'll try to implement a suitable work around now as the input data into my program will be decimals ranging from ...