it is said that without the strictfp modifier floating points used in methods behave in platform dependent way..
how come it is true?? because java is platform independent right??
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There is more in this article from 2001. The idea of strictfp is to "force" the JVM into giving infinity or 0 as an answer when the values go beyond the normal range of the floating point number.