You may have seen recently that Java suffers from a similar floating-point parsing bug to the one that recently affected PHP users. The basic gist of it is that for this special 64-bit floating point ...

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Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The key difference between a float and double in Java is that a double can represent much larger ...