Anyone have any thoughts on this one?

Teutscher, Uwe wrote:

>But with poi version 1.0.1 I get the correct result. 
>I think this is a step back.
>
>Uwe
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 2:05 PM
>To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>Subject: Re: Wrong result from numberic cell value with
>v1.5.0-dev-20020416
>
>
>Yes this is a documentation bug.  We're using double.  double rounding
>is not 100% accurate.  Future versions may support BigDecimal as well,
>but not the current dev version.  If you round to the expected decimal
>places you should get acceptable results.  
>
>If someone wants to do a BigDecimal patch that provides it in addition
>to double, then I'll gladly commit it.
>
>-Andy
>
>On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 05:20, Teutscher, Uwe wrote:
>
>>Hi
>>
>>I have the following problem with POI versions
>>jakarta-poi-1.5.0-dev-20020416-bin and version 1.4583.
>>
>>I get the wrong result back when I read a cell with the vale 987.01.
>>
>>
>>public class Test {
>>    public static void main(String[] args)  throws IOException {
>>
>>        POIFSFileSystem fs = new POIFSFileSystem(new
>>FileInputStream("test.xls"));
>>        HSSFWorkbook wb = new HSSFWorkbook(fs);
>>        HSSFSheet sheet = wb.getSheetAt(0);
>>        HSSFRow row = sheet.getRow(0);
>>
>>        HSSFCell cell = row.getCell((short)0);
>>        System.out.println("> " + cell.getNumericCellValue());
>>        cell = row.getCell((short)1);
>>        System.out.println("> " + cell.getNumericCellValue());
>>        cell = row.getCell((short)2);
>>        System.out.println("> " + cell.getNumericCellValue());
>>        cell = row.getCell((short)3);
>>        System.out.println("> " + cell.getNumericCellValue());
>>    }
>>}
>>
>>The excel file test.xls has one row with 4 cells:
>>987.0         987.01          987.02          987.011         
>>
>>
>>The result is:
>>987.0
>>987.010625
>>987.020625
>>987.011
>>
>>Thanks for your help
>>
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