RE: DecimalFormat -- JAVA400-L

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Subject: RE: DecimalFormat
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 11:56:09 -0600
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> From: Xu, Weining
>
> I run your code with double a = 5.345, b = 1.145, c = 2.645;
> 5.345 was still not rounded right.  Why?

As Paul pointed out, Wayne, floating point doesn't always handle precision
very well.  You should really consider using BigDecimal when precision is an
issue.  I don't have any better answer for you.

Joe

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