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Author [jira] Commented: (JDO-206) JDOQL test NotEquals comparing floating point numbers
Erik Bengtson (JIRA)

2005-12-11, 8:45 pm

[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/brows...action_12360162 ]

Erik Bengtson commented on JDO-206:
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I extended the test, and when the JVM converts (float)-234.23 it results in -234.22999572753906.

Is that a JVM bug?

import org.apache.derby.iapi.error.StandardException;
import org.apache.derby.iapi.types.NumberDataType;

public class FloatTest
{

/**
* @param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args)
{
try
{
System.out.println(NumberDataType.normalizeDOUBLE((float)-234.23)); //prints -234.22999572753906
float f =(float)-234.23;
System.out.println(f); //prints -234.23
System.out.println((double)f); //prints -234.22999572753906
}
catch (StandardException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

}


> JDOQL test NotEquals comparing floating point numbers
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: JDO-206
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JDO-206
> Project: JDO
> Type: Bug
> Components: tck20
> Reporter: Andy Jefferson
> Assignee: Erik Bengtson


>
> The current TCK test (carried over from JDO 1.0) for NotEquals, uses != operator on floating point numbers. This is not a good practice, and is unreliable. Its probably the case that the Equals test uses == on the same content, which also is not a good

idea (as noted in the latest spec). These tests need reviewing and a reliable alternate strategy adopting

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