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 ...

Java double printf table example The chart above, which shows how different patterns impact the formatting of a double, was actually created with printf statements.

What's the difference between double vs float data types? In this quick tutorial we show how float and double Java types differ, along with guidance on how to choose one over the other.