The lower range of a float in Java is 1.4E-45. When Java encounters a decimal in a program, or a calculation generates a floating point number, Java treats the number as a double. For example, both of ...

In the following example, the addition of 5.6 and 5.8 results in a value of 11.3999, not 11.4 For the most precise double calculations in Java, the JDK provides a special class named BigDecimal. For ...

This week, it's a different story. I tried the espresso float from Java Jive, and owner Jayne Reid-Walen was able to bring over lots of samples to the WCCO booth. The float has rich espresso ...