I know that there are issues arising from using primitives of data type double in mathematical expressions. Somewhere in the earlier polsts it was suggested to use Math.round(a), where a is a double. However, when I execute the following: ... double x = 27.475; double y = 7.22; double z = x - y; System.out.println("x - y = " + Math.round(z)); ... I get "x - y = 20", not 20.255. If I do not use Math.round, I get 20.255000000000003. Now, how would one do the basic calculations then and get the correct result?
Hi Sergey, You are getting the correct result. Math.round only returns an integer. If you want to "print" out the answer formatted then you can make use of java.text.SimpleDecimalFormat. SimpleDecimalFormat sdf = new SimpleDecimalFormat( "#.000" ); System.out.println( "x - y = " + sdf.format( z ) ); Regards, Manfred.
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Thanx! But what about the situation when the value of X and Y is being assigned dynamically, which may result in more than 3 decimal positions for Z? Is there any way to dynalically "round" the result?