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Retain precision with double in Java

April 24, 2022 by Tarik

As others have mentioned, you’ll probably want to use the BigDecimal class, if you want to have an exact representation of 11.4. Now, a little explanation into why this is happening: The float and double primitive types in Java are floating point numbers, where the number is stored as a binary representation of a fraction … Read more

Difference between decimal, float and double in .NET?

April 20, 2022 by Tarik

float and double are floating binary point types. In other words, they represent a number like this: 10001.10010110011 The binary number and the location of the binary point are both encoded within the value. decimal is a floating decimal point type. In other words, they represent a number like this: 12345.65789 Again, the number and … Read more