Re: String to double -- JAVA400-L

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Subject: Re: String to double
From: Glenn Holmer <gholmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 14:28:05 -0500
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Gary L Peskin wrote:

BTW, if this is a money amount, I would strongly suggest using
com.ibm.math.BigDecimal which performs true decimal arithmetic and is a
lot faster than java.math.BigDecimal.  Not all fractional amounts
convert properly to double, which is a binary representation.

What is the difference between Sun's BigDecimal and IBM's?
java.math.BigDecimal does "true decimal arithmetic" too, right?
Is it just the speed that's better?

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