Retain precision with double in Java

Question

public class doublePrecision {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        double total = 0;
        total += 5.6;
        total += 5.8;
        System.out         


        

Answer 1

Check out BigDecimal, it handles problems dealing with floating point arithmetic like that.

The new call would look like this:

term[number].coefficient.add(co);

Use setScale() to set the number of decimal place precision to be used.