Strange value returned

[michael yue]

Hi I need some help here.

I am trying to display some calculations in a manner of sum of money. Example 120.00, 234.23 and so on.

I discovered something weird when I did this
double value=0.01*45878;

Instead of returning 458.78 it returns 458.78000000000003
The other numbers does not get affected. What is wrong? Are there any way I could display to .00 precision for this particular strange value.

Thanks a lot

[Chandra Sekhar]

Plz check the link

another one

i'm confused with the explanation given.Can some one explain this little more

Thanks in Advance
Chandrasekhar S
SCJP
[ June 18, 2004: Message edited by: Chandrasekhar S ]

[Darin Niard]

Check out the round method in the Math class.

Hint: Temporarily move the decimal over two spots while you round.

[Eddie Vanda]

The problem is that a float and double are each stored as two parts, a mantissa and an exponent and that they are each in terms of powers of two. It's the exponent that gives floating point such a wide range, but at the expense of mantissa accuracy. I think that mantissa float accuracy is about 24 binary bits and about 48 bits for double. If you divide those by 3 (a very rough guide), you get about 8 and 16 decimal digit accuracy. Iow, you should not depend on more than about 6 or 14 bit accuracy respectively for each one. Use the format classes to produce no more than the required number of digits.
[ June 19, 2004: Message edited by: Eddie Vanda ]