Displaying large doubles without scientific notation

[Jeremy Medford]

Can anyone share with me how to display very large doubles that would normally have no fractional part, but always display with scientific notation by default?

Basically, I want to see the number without Scientific Notation.

Thank you.

[Henry Wong]

Originally posted by Jeremy Medford:
Can anyone share with me how to display very large doubles that would normally have no fractional part, but always display with scientific notation by default?

Basically, I want to see the number without Scientific Notation.

Thank you.

Well, you can take the double, load it into a BigDecimal, convert that BigDecimal to a BigInteger, then convert that to a string for printing. However, you have to be careful, doubles are not very precise, so you may get errors loading it into a BigDecimal.

If you have the original number in Scientific Notation as a string, then it should work perfectly. Just load that string into a BigDecimal, convert to BigInteger, and then to a string.


Now... having said this... This can probably be done without the BigInteger, by using scaling instead, so if someone knows how, I would appreciate if you share it.

Henry

[Mike Simmons]

I would probably try a DecimalFormat instead.

[Henry Wong]

Originally posted by Mike Simmons:
I would probably try a DecimalFormat instead.

Good point. I always use DecimalFormat to format the decimal side, and totally forgot it can do this...

Henry