How do I print a double value without scientific notation using Java?

Question

I want to print a double value in Java without exponential form.

double dexp = 12345678;
System.out.println(\"dexp: \"+dexp);

It shows this

Answer 1

I needed to convert some double to currency values and found that most of the solutions were OK, but not for me.

The DecimalFormat was eventually the way for me, so here is what I've done:

   public String foo(double value) //Got here 6.743240136E7 or something..
    {
        DecimalFormat formatter;

        if(value - (int)value > 0.0)
            formatter = new DecimalFormat("0.00"); // Here you can also deal with rounding if you wish..
        else
            formatter = new DecimalFormat("0");

        return formatter.format(value);
    }

As you can see, if the number is natural I get - say - 20000000 instead of 2E7 (etc.) - without any decimal point.

And if it's decimal, I get only two decimal digits.

Answer 2

For integer values represented by a double, you can use this code, which is much faster than the other solutions.

public static String doubleToString(final double d) {
    // check for integer, also see https://stackoverflow.com/a/9898613/868941 and
    // https://github.com/google/guava/blob/master/guava/src/com/google/common/math/DoubleMath.java
    if (isMathematicalInteger(d)) {
        return Long.toString((long)d);
    } else {
        // or use any of the solutions provided by others, this is the best
        DecimalFormat df = 
            new DecimalFormat("0", DecimalFormatSymbols.getInstance(Locale.ENGLISH));
        df.setMaximumFractionDigits(340); // 340 = DecimalFormat.DOUBLE_FRACTION_DIGITS
        return df.format(d);
    }
}

// Java 8+
public static boolean isMathematicalInteger(final double d) {
    return StrictMath.rint(d) == d && Double.isFinite(d);
}

Answer 3

You can try it with DecimalFormat. With this class you are very flexible in parsing your numbers.
You can exactly set the pattern you want to use.
In your case for example:

double test = 12345678;
DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("#");
df.setMaximumFractionDigits(0);
System.out.println(df.format(test)); //12345678

Answer 4

Java prevent E notation in a double:

Five different ways to convert a double to a normal number:

import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.text.DecimalFormat;

public class Runner {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        double myvalue = 0.00000021d;

        //Option 1 Print bare double.
        System.out.println(myvalue);

        //Option2, use decimalFormat.
        DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("#");
        df.setMaximumFractionDigits(8);
        System.out.println(df.format(myvalue));

        //Option 3, use printf.
        System.out.printf("%.9f", myvalue);
        System.out.println();

        //Option 4, convert toBigDecimal and ask for toPlainString().
        System.out.print(new BigDecimal(myvalue).toPlainString());
        System.out.println();

        //Option 5, String.format 
        System.out.println(String.format("%.12f", myvalue));
    }
}

This program prints:

2.1E-7
.00000021
0.000000210
0.000000210000000000000001085015324114868562332958390470594167709350585
0.000000210000

Which are all the same value.

Protip: If you are confused as to why those random digits appear beyond a certain threshold in the double value, this video explains: computerphile why does 0.1+0.2 equal 0.30000000000001?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PZRI1IfStY0

Answer 5

The following code detects if the provided number is presented in scientific notation. If so it is represented in normal presentation with a maximum of '25' digits.

 static String convertFromScientificNotation(double number) {
    // Check if in scientific notation
    if (String.valueOf(number).toLowerCase().contains("e")) {
        System.out.println("The scientific notation number'"
                + number
                + "' detected, it will be converted to normal representation with 25 maximum fraction digits.");
        NumberFormat formatter = new DecimalFormat();
        formatter.setMaximumFractionDigits(25);
        return formatter.format(number);
    } else
        return String.valueOf(number);
}

Answer 6

I've got another solution involving BigDecimal's toPlainString(), but this time using the String-constructor, which is recommended in the javadoc:

this constructor is compatible with the values returned by Float.toString and Double.toString. This is generally the preferred way to convert a float or double into a BigDecimal, as it doesn't suffer from the unpredictability of the BigDecimal(double) constructor.

It looks like this in its shortest form:

return new BigDecimal(myDouble.toString()).stripTrailingZeros().toPlainString();

Pre Java 8, this results in "0.0" for any zero-valued Doubles, so you would need to add:

if (myDouble.doubleValue() == 0)
    return "0";

NaN and infinite values have to be checked extra.

The final result of all these considerations:

public static String doubleToString(Double d) {
    if (d == null)
        return null;
    if (d.isNaN() || d.isInfinite())
        return d.toString();

    // Pre Java 8, a value of 0 would yield "0.0" below
    if (d.doubleValue() == 0)
        return "0";
    return new BigDecimal(d.toString()).stripTrailingZeros().toPlainString();
}

This can also be copied/pasted to work nicely with Float.