I'm surprised you're getting scientific notation for this by default, although somewhere I believe there exists a setting for this? Anyone?
Regardless, you can use the NumberFormat/DecimalFormat utility classes to display as you want:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/text/DecimalFormat.html By the way, you mentioned the 'exact' value, technically d4 represents the exact value, it just displays in non-useful format. If you want to perform operations on the 'exact' value,
you should still use d4. Only use the formatter to display the data on the screen to the user.
[ November 09, 2005: Message edited by: Scott Selikoff ]