[virs6]

How am i going to solve this problem???could somebody please help me,,,
This is the problem...say you are given 1/3, the answer for that was 3.3333 and so on and so forth in other words its infinite,,,how are you going to make it that the answer must be 3.(3) instead of an infinite .3?,,thanks for your help....need asap.

[Cuzzie]

First of all, 1/3 = 0.33333, not 3.33333. You mean you want to format the number of decimal places? You'll be needing DecimalFormat.

Example:

import java.text.DecimalFormat;

public class something{

     public static void main(String[] args){
      
          DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("#.##");
          double number = 0.333333333;    
          //formatting the number into two decimal places
          System.out.println(df.format(number));

     }

}

This post has been edited by Cuzzie: 06 August 2010 - 01:40 AM

[pbl]

Cuzzie, on 06 August 2010 - 02:39 AM, said:

First of all, 1/3 = 0.33333, not 3.33333. You mean you want to format the number of decimal places? You'll be needing DecimalFormat.

Example:

import java.text.DecimalFormat;

public class something{

     public static void main(String[] args){
      
          DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("#.##");
          double number = 0.333333333;    
          //formatting the number into two decimal places
          System.out.println(df.format(number));

     }

}

Don't see how a BigDecimal would fix this problem ???
Even if you have a BidDecimal with 5 billions decimal you will still have decimals missing
My bad sorry

This post has been edited by pbl: 08 August 2010 - 08:26 PM

[Luckless]

Out of curiosity pbl, why is his answer unacceptable? That is how I would format the number

[pbl]

Luckless, on 08 August 2010 - 09:19 PM, said:

Out of curiosity pbl, why is his answer unacceptable? That is how I would format the number

Sorry my mistake....
I might have been to quick
I saw BigDecimnal instead or DecimalFormat
Please give a +1 to Cuzzie to cancel my -1
My apologies to them

[Luckless]

it's alright, I just didn't want to cancel it out if there was a good reason Keep it up Cuzzie

[pbl]

Luckless, on 08 August 2010 - 09:26 PM, said:

it's alright, I just didn't want to cancel it out if there was a good reason Keep it up Cuzzie

And +1 for you for pointing out this error to me

[Cuzzie]

pbl, on 09 August 2010 - 02:23 AM, said:

Luckless, on 08 August 2010 - 09:19 PM, said:

Out of curiosity pbl, why is his answer unacceptable? That is how I would format the number

Sorry my mistake....
I might have been to quick
I saw BigDecimnal instead or DecimalFormat
Please give a +1 to Cuzzie to cancel my -1
My apologies to them

It's alright.

[virs6]

sorry...my mistake...yup its 0.3333,,,
thanks for your reply,..