Source of PrecisionTest.java


  1: // Fig 28.13: PrecisionTest.java
  2: // Using precision for floating-point numbers and strings.
  3: public class PrecisionTest 
  4: {
  5:    public static void main( String args[] )
  6:    { 
  7:       double f = 123.94536; 
  8:       String s = "Happy Birthday"; 
  9: 
 10:       System.out.printf( "Using precision for floating-point numbers\n" );
 11:       System.out.printf( "\t%.3f\n\t%.3e\n\t%.3g\n\n", f, f, f );  
 12:    
 13:       System.out.printf( "Using precision for strings\n" );
 14:       System.out.printf( "\t%.11s\n", s );
 15:    } // end main 
 16: } // end class PrecisionTest
 17: 
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