Floating-point comparisons : float « Data Type « Java

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Floating-point comparisons

       
/**
 * Floating-point comparisons.
 * @author Ian F. Darwin, http://www.darwinsys.com/
 * @version $Id: FloatCmp.java,v 1.11 2004/02/09 03:33:56 ian Exp $
 */
public class FloatCmp {
  final static double EPSILON = 0.0000001;
  public static void main(String[] argv) {
    double da = 3 * .3333333333;
    double db = 0.99999992857;

    // Compare two numbers that are expected to be close.
    if (da == db) {
      System.out.println("Java considers " + da + "==" + db);
    // else compare with our own equals method
    } else if (equals(da, db, 0.0000001)) {
      System.out.println("True within epsilon " + EPSILON);
    } else {
      System.out.println(da + " != " + db);
    }

    // Show that comparing two NaNs is not a good idea:
    double d1 = Double.NaN;
    double d2 = Double.NaN;
    if (d1 == d2)
      System.err.println("Comparing two NaNs incorrectly returns true.");
    if (!new Double(d1).equals(new Double(d2)))
      System.err.println("Double(NaN).equal(NaN) incorrectly returns false.");
  }

  /** Compare two doubles within a given epsilon */
  public static boolean equals(double a, double b, double eps) {
    if (a==b) return true;
    // If the difference is less than epsilon, treat as equal.
    return Math.abs(a - b) < eps;
  }

  /** Compare two doubles, using default epsilon */
  public static boolean equals(double a, double b) {
    if (a==b) return true;
    // If the difference is less than epsilon, treat as equal.
    return Math.abs(a - b) < EPSILON * Math.max(Math.abs(a), Math.abs(b));
  }
}



           
         
    
    
    
    
    
    
  

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