I guess fixed point makes most sense. You aren't going to need values outside of, er, [-2, 2] (it's a long time since my second year maths project). There also isn't much point in specially handling values much smaller. So even long would get you a few more bits than double. Unfortunately Java (or most other 3GLs, such as C) are much cop at handling arithmetic split across multiple "integer" types.
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