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Message:

Help me please!

Posted by student on November 28, 2001 at 11:59 AM

This is piece of code:

public static void main(String[] args) {
double rate;
rate = 0.05;
while (rate <= 0.1)
{
System.out.println("rate = "+ rate);
double a = 0.01;
rate += a;
}
}
And this is an output:

rate = 0.05
rate = 0.060000000000000005
rate = 0.07
rate = 0.08
rate = 0.09
rate = 0.09999999999999999

I would expect the result would be different. Does anyone know why it is not what I expected and how would I fix it?
Thanks.

• Re: Unexpected double value Brian Sanders November 28, 2001 at 1:44 PM (0)