Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: [OT] Re: missing import java.lang.Comparable Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 20:17:24 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <6cbiob184r55h86pg11p45gkkmg4c877tu@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 7SK6yTFfqwlIPNBLl3l7Qg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:34992 On 7/19/2016 5:54 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 16:37:28 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >> On 7/19/2016 1:31 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote: >> And I suggest you remain on topic. Javascript is off topic in this >> newsgroup. I tried telling you nicely - but you ignored it. So I had >> to be more firm. I advise you look into how to stay on topic. >> >> And you still haven't described how Java (not javascript) handles >> decimal numbers with at least 18 digits of accuracy. >> > I don't think it can: he's already said that Javascript's only internal > numeric representation is a 64 bit floating point number, i.e. a double, > which we already know can not support 18 significant digits since its > only got 53 bits for the mantissa, i.e. just under 15 significant digits. Well he actually asked for Java not JavaScript. Arne