I've been watching the releases of JDK6 closely and have noticed that the math facilities continue to mature. Following in the footsteps of java.lang.StrictMath
in JDK5, I see that JDK6 adds more useful static methods (for each method, there are similar methods for floats):
double copySign(double magnitude, double sign)
- Returns the first floating-point argument with the sign of the second floating-point argument.
int getExponent(double d)
- Returns the unbiased exponent used in the representation of a double.
double nextAfter(double start, double direction)
- Returns the floating-point number adjacent to the first argument in the direction of the second argument.
public static double nextUp(double d)
- Returns the floating-point value adjacent to d in the direction of positive infinity.
double scalb(double d, int scaleFactor)
- Return d × 2scaleFactor rounded as if performed by a single correctly rounded floating-point multiply to a member of the double value set.
The only drawback is that several common operations are still missing. I wish the JDK would provide the comprehensiveness of C's libm.
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