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  3. October 2002

Re: String to double

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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