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There is a BigDecimal class in java.math.  Maybe this could help you, I use
it to represent money.

Jen

Alex Humphreys wrote:

> I'm trying to add a group of doubles (for column totals in my grid) and
> I'm getting STRANGE data with decimal points.  Seemingly randomly, it
> will throw on an extra 15 or so digits.  Now, I've read about Floating
> Point problems with this, so I'm assuming that this is an off-shoot of
> that problem.
>
> Is there a way around this problem?
>
> I'm trying to format the solution using DoubleFormatter, but can't get
> the syntax right.  I'm trying:
>
>     DoubleFormatter double_f = new DoubleFormatter(7);
>     double_f.setPattern("###.{##}");
>     Variant temp_v = new Variant();
>     double_f.setFromDouble(temp_v, 7, my_dataRow.getDouble("my_col"));
>     my_col.setText(temp_v.toString());
>
> And of course this doesn't do a darn thing.  What am I missing?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Alex