RE: String to double

["Gary L Peskin" <garyp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimalj/decfaq.html#better

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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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