Hi Steve,
It's a problem inherent to floating point computations. U may use the
double datatype to increase precision. If you need arbitrary precision
computations, u should use the Java Ultimate Math Package, written by
the Utrecht University, Netherlands. It is available @:
http://members.xoom.com/znerd/java/jump/
It's distributed under the GNU General Public Library License (hooray).
Source code, whitepaper, javadocs etc. all available.
Meself happens to be the guy who wrote it. Let me know if you use and
whether you like it. :-)
Ernst
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I have installed JDK 1.1.6 on my RedHat 5.0 Linux box and when
performing
mathmatical calculations in java I get incorrect results. Take for
example
(float)14.39 I can do a basic System.out.println and it will print out
on
the command line: 14.3899999999999. What is wrong with my JDK 1.1.6? I
am
new to Java so hopefully I'm just missing something small here.
Steve
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