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Changing number format to NOT do Scientific Notation....ever...

 
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ok, so ive been working on a calculator program, and if i dare exceed 1 million it puts it into scientific notation. from looking around i tried the

import java.math.*; import java.text.*; thing with NumberFormat blah = new DecimalFormat(); and setting it to ("############");

and adding the blah.formatter(whatever output is here); that seems to appear everywhere i look. but after compiling then running the program. and inputing the values i need. i get this upon it trying to calculate it.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot format giv
en Object as a Number
at java.text.DecimalFormat.format(DecimalFormat.java:480)
at java.text.Format.format(Format.java:133)
at BlueprintCalculatorTEST.run(BlueprintCalculatorTEST.java:102)
at acm.program.Program.runHook(Program.java)
at acm.program.Program.startRun(Program.java)
at acm.program.Program.start(Program.java)
at acm.program.Program.start(Program.java)
at acm.program.Program.main(Program.java)


any suggestions would be grand and much appreciated. (and theres no Doubles or anything. its JUST int's considering that the calculator is used for things that never have a decimal.)
 
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What are you passing to the method - what kind of object? or are you passing a primitive?

 
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well thats the thing.. theres not an object. like... heres a little example of this

int x = readInt("Number of Blueprints reuested (1-10): ");

if (x==1)//ONE BLUEPRINT
{
println("First Blueprint");

isogen = readInt("Amount of Isogen: ");
totaliso0 = isogen * runs;


theres a ton more to it, the thats basically what im doing. and wen i get my final output it always puts it to scientific notation, which i dont want.
 
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theres a ton more to it, the thats basically what im doing. and wen i get my final output it always puts it to scientific notation, which i dont want.



"ton more" of what? I don't even see a call to the format() method in the code that you did provide.

Henry
 
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as i said. its a large base calculator program, but if i go past 1million it kicks it into scientific notation, from everything ive read it requires formatting for the number to not do that. i need it to give exact numbers, not scientific notation. if needed i can give you the program i got, this is all thats left to finish it. majority of the numbers will be in the hundred millions and the billions so i need it to not display scientific notation.
 
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Without seeing the actual code that uses the applyPattern and format methods it's hard to say what might be going on. Something like this works fine for me:

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