Determines whether a floating point value is close enough to zero to be considered "equal" to zero (i.e., the difference may be attributed to rounding errors). - Java java.lang

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Determines whether a floating point value is close enough to zero to be considered "equal" to zero (i.e., the difference may be attributed to rounding errors).

Demo Code

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import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;

public class Main{
    /**
     * A comparison threshold value to be used when a normal degree of
     * precision is expected.
     */
    public static final double EPSILON = 1e-6;
    /**
     * Determines whether a floating point value is close enough to zero to be
     * considered "equal" to zero (i.e., the difference may be attributed to
     * rounding errors).
     * @param x The value to compare to zero.
     * @param epsilon The minimum absolute value of {@code x} for it to be
     *     considered non-zero.
     * @return A value indicates whether the difference between {@code x} and
     *     0.0 is less than {@code epsilon}.
     */
    public static boolean isZero(double x, double epsilon) {
        return Math.abs(x) < epsilon;
    }
    /**
     * Determines whether a floating point value is close enough to zero to be
     * considered "equal" to zero (i.e., the difference may be attributed to
     * rounding errors).
     * @param x The value to compare to zero.
     * @return A value indicates whether the difference between {@code x} and
     *     0.0 is less than {@link #EPSILON}.
     * @see #EPSILON
     */
    public static boolean isZero(double x) {
        return Math.abs(x) < MathUtil.EPSILON;
    }
}

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