CHAPTER 11 — Floating Point

The Java primitive types include the floating point types float and double. Floating point numbers are those that include a fractional part. When written for human viewing, a floating point number includes a decimal point. For example, 3.14159 and -0.718802.

Chapter Topics:

• Converting strings to double
• Keyboard input of floating point numbers
• The Math class
• Square root
• Trig functions
• PI
• Not a Number (NaN)

All of the familiar mathematical functions such as sine, log, and square root are available to your program in the Java Math class. These functions typically expect floating point data.